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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3867587, member: 98035&quot;]Interesting, I was not aware of that issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>From my reading, Trajan rather intensely disliked Hadrian and never appointed him as his heir - the official story goes that the appointment was made on Trajan&#039;s deathbed, although many have claimed that Plotina simply forged the wills to allow Hadrian to take the purple. I hadn&#039;t included a coin of Hadrian as Caesar because I didn&#039;t think one did exist, or that it made historical sense. Such a coin I think must either be a backdated issue as you said, or else it would call into question the entire circumstance of Hadrian&#039;s accession.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another observation about coins from this period...</p><p><br /></p><p>- Coins of Divus Nerva are nearly nonexistent (excepting those made by Decius). I was able to find a few provincial examples, and one aureus on AC Search</p><p><br /></p><p>- Even though Trajan was adopted by Nerva months before Nerva&#039;s death, no coins were struck as far as I can tell?</p><p><br /></p><p>- Coins of Divus Trajan likewise are extremely rare, mostly restricted to a couple types of aureii. One would think Hadrian would want to make the show of good faith and give his adoptive dead father a nice and extensive commemorative series.</p><p><br /></p><p>- Coins of Divus Hadrian are also rare, but not nearly as much as his predecessors (in fact, I got outbid on one just about a month ago at a CNG auction). This makes sense, because Hadrian killed a lot of people who were on his bad side as he neared the end of his life. He wasn&#039;t popular.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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