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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cobbler, post: 3215082, member: 97497&quot;]Regular contributors to this forum may recall a thread I started a few weeks ago called &quot;A consistent set of Roman denominations from one emperor&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I received great advice from you experts and decided to go for Trajan. I bought a nice silver denarius with a view to progressing to other denominations of his in due course. That is still the plan HOWEVER I&nbsp; thought that given his legacy in Britain it would be good to have a coin of Hadrian as well. I&#039;m tempted by this silver denarius from a UK dealer:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]835840[/ATTACH] </p><p>By comparison with <a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sear5/s3462.html#RIC_0301" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sear5/s3462.html#RIC_0301" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sear5/s3462.html#RIC_0301</a> it looks like we have </p><p><br /></p><p>Laureate bust right; HADRIANVS AVG COS III PP&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>ASIA; Asia with foot on prow holding hook and rudder</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m unfamiliar with &#039;Asia&#039; on coins so can anyone tell me the connection with ships?&nbsp; Wildwinds doesn&#039;t give a year or a mint so any idea which mint, and does the COS III make it dateable?&nbsp; Other coins of Hadrian (117-138) with COS III seem to vary re date but would appear to be towards the end of his reign.</p><p><br /></p><p>As always, all contributions gratefully received ...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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