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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4721865, member: 99456&quot;]<img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/310567/original/file-20200116-181617-c3nx4x.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;h=435&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Thanks, Okidoki, I had not recognized the zodiac belts on this coin! and missed the link with this coin.&nbsp; My Providentia a variant with PRO AVG and a much smaller globe &quot;with zodiac belts&quot;.&nbsp; Looking at <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_3(2).hdn.2319-2321" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_3(2).hdn.2319-2321" rel="nofollow">other examples in RIC online</a>, your coin seems quite exceptional with that shield-like globe with clear stripes.&nbsp; Your coin also from the time after Hadrian accepted the senate&#039;s offer of the title &quot;Pater Patriae&quot; (AD 128-129) after an 11 year demonstration of modesty.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1157031[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Hadrian</b>, AD 117-138, AR Denarius, Rome mint, struck circa AD 121-123</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Laureate and draped bust right</p><p><b>Rev: </b>Providentia standing facing, head left, holding scepter; globe to left at feet with zodiac belts</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Reference for this one is a bit tricky as the numbers have changed and descriptions not right on RIC Online.&nbsp; In my 1989 reprint of RIC this is called 133a (head laureate right), both <a href="http://numismatics.org/search/results?q=reference_facet:%22RIC%20II%20Hadrian%20133a%22" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/search/results?q=reference_facet:%22RIC%20II%20Hadrian%20133a%22" rel="nofollow">133a examples at ANS </a>are incorrectly shown with column (134), at RIC Online <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_3(2).hdn.560" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_3(2).hdn.560" rel="nofollow">Type 560</a> seems to be right, but the examples are mixed so perhaps <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_3(2).hdn.556-561" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_3(2).hdn.556-561" rel="nofollow">556-661</a> is the safe reference without the book.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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