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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 2039564, member: 44132&quot;]Another of my latest purchases arrived in the post yesterday and it&#039;s another Hadrian Denarius.&nbsp; This makes my 11th coin of Hadrian (probably still counting).&nbsp; And no, I am not competing with Okidoki.&nbsp; I would never catch him in this lifetime. I just liked the looks of this particular coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]372113[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]372114[/ATTACH] </p><p>HADRIAN AR Denarius</p><p>OBVERSE: IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG, laureate bust right, drapery on far shoulder</p><p>REVERSE: VOT (left), PVB (right), “public vows,” in the field. PM TR P COS III, “Pontifex Maximus, endowed with tribunician power, Consul for the third time, Pietas standing, hands extended before her</p><p>Struck at Rome, 121 AD</p><p>3.46g. 17mm</p><p>RIC II 141</p><p><br /></p><p>VOT_PVB stands for Vota Pvblica, Latin: State (official)vows (prayers).</p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian was the cousin of Trajan with whom he had a rocky love-hate relationship. However, his relationship with Trajan turned out to be less consequential to his own rise to becoming emperor. It is widely thought that Trajan himself never actually selected Hadrian as his successor but his powerful aunt, who was very fond of Hadrian and took the role of surrogate mother, forged documents to the effect when Trajan was on his deathbed. Hadrian is remembered chiefly by his active role in the military, by the prolific building of all sorts of city and military improvements, by being a shrewd economic strategist as well as for his infamous homosexual relationship with a boy named Antinous.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Post any Hadrian, Pietas or any related coins.</u></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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