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Message:: [QUOTE="Trebellianus, post: 4289998, member: 91569"]I keep an eye out for "year 1" Hadrians. It seems like the official imperial image hadn't quite been nailed down at the start of the reign: there's often a kind of thinness and untidiness to the portraits which I find particularly agreeable. And the pompous first-months titulature with "OPTIMO" and whatnot is fun. I have two of these so far: [ATTACH=full]1092017[/ATTACH]Hadrian, 117AD: O: draped, cuirassed, laureate bust right, IMP CAES TRAIAN [HADRI]AN OPT AVG GER DAC / R: Pietas, veiled, standing left, raising right hand, [PART]HIC DIVI TRAIAN AVG F P M TR P COS P P. Seller's photo.[ATTACH=full]1092024[/ATTACH]Hadrian, 117AD: O: draped, cuirassed, laureate bust right, IMP CAES DIVI TRA PARTH F DIVI NER NEP TRAIANO HADRIANO AVG / R: Fortuna seated left holding rudder and cornucopia, PONT MAX TR POT COS, in ex. FORT RED S C. Seller's photo. Although, if we're talking attractive young Hadrians, for best results one probably has to look to the final years of the reign, where this "portrait of great beauty" (Mattingly) showing a young Hadrian was issued. Not mine, of course: <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4954169" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4954169" rel="nofollow">the auction listing has a good description.</a> [ATTACH=full]1092034[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]