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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Trebellianus, post: 3867298, member: 91569&quot;]Very intriguing post, thank you.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would add to this list the curious lack of issues for Hadrian as caesar: an exceptionally rare aureus is known, but nothing further.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1022341[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Picture taken <a href="https://followinghadrian.com/2017/08/09/9th-august-117-ad-trajans-letter-of-adoption-reaches-hadrian-hadrian1900/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://followinghadrian.com/2017/08/09/9th-august-117-ad-trajans-letter-of-adoption-reaches-hadrian-hadrian1900/" rel="nofollow">from here</a>.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>The lack of these strikes me as a little curious regardless of how exactly Hadrian came to be emperor. If he genuinely was adopted during the lifetime of Trajan, then we have a strangely limited attempt to publicise him on the coinage, contrasting sharply with how much the later Antonines advertised their successors.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the adoption was a fiction which needed to be propagandised because it didn&#039;t actually exist --and hence, this coin is &quot;backdated&quot; to Trajan&#039;s reign-- then a single rare faux-Trajanic issue is a rather low-energy effort. The better-known &quot;ADOPTIO&quot; series was meanwhile a larger issue in all metals. Interesting either way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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