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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 7841278, member: 85693&quot;]My favorite Hadrian for type is this one - Nemesis spitting into her dress, a coin issued to celebrate the &quot;just desserts&quot; meted out to the Bar Kochba revolt:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1348873[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Hadrian&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(136 (RIC); c. 134-138 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>[HADRI]ANVS AVG C[OS III P P], laureate head right / S-C, Pax-Nemesis advancing right, holding out fold of dress in apotropaic gesture and branch.</p><p>RIC II.3 2288 (RIC 779); Cohen 1374; BMC 1549.</p><p>(21.14 grams / 29 mm)</p><p>eBay June 2020</p><p><b>Note:</b>&nbsp; &quot;The main denarius and aes types with VICTORIA AVG slogan (...the aes with the same theme is anepigraphic) feature an unusual winged Victory superstitiously lifting drapery to spit on her own chest to ward off ill-fortune and syncretised with Pax in holding the branch of peace.&nbsp; This is the type of Nemesis (fate) which along with Justitia can be read as the Roman view of giving Bar Kochba and his rebellion their &#039;just deserts&#039;... thematically it is clearly linked to the evens of 136.&quot; (RIC II, 3)</p><p><br /></p><p>A couple of the &quot;Restitution issues:</p><p><br /></p><p>Africa:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1348872[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Achaea (Greece):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1348874[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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