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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5653014, member: 110504&quot;]No worries!&nbsp; With the first denarius I ever bought, <i>exactly </i>the same thing happened!&nbsp; Guess that gave me inside information.</p><p>...Come to think of it, it fooled the dealer, too!</p><p>Another fun thing you can do with this, and lots of Roman imperial coins, is date the coin from the reverse.&nbsp; That&#039;s Aequitas, holding scales and a cornucopia.&nbsp; The reverse legend is a string of abbreviated titles of Senatorial and other official offices Hadrian held.</p><p>&quot;PM TRP COS III&quot; can be rendered, &quot;Pontifex Maximus [High Priest of the state religion],&quot; &quot;Tribunica Potestas [holding the power of a Tribune],&quot; &quot;Third year as Consul [...from 119 CE].&quot;</p><p>Hadrian didn&#039;t update the date of his consulship after that.&nbsp; Other people here know more detail about the full implications of that, but as early in the reign as 119, Hadrian would be only likelier to still be referring to Trajan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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