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Object Type
Museum number: 1850,0601.4
Denomination: aureus
Description: Gold coin. (whole); Head of Hadrian, bare, right, drapery on left shoulder and behind. (obverse); Busts of Trajan, draped, cuirassed, head, bare, right, and Plotina, draped, wearing stephane, left, facing one another: above each, a star. (reverse)
State
Authority
Cultures/periods
Production date: 130-138
Production place: Minted in: Rome (city)
Materials
Dimensions: Die-axis: 1 o'clock; Diameter: 19 millimetres; Weight: 7.350 grammes
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: RE3 / Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, vol.III: Nerva to Hadrian (603, p.318); Opper 2008 / Hadrian: Empire and Conflict (29); RIC2 / The Roman imperial coinage, vol. 2: Vespasian to Hadrian (232b, p.367) (type); Strack (Hadrian) / Die Reichspraegung zur Zeit des Hadrian (354); RIC2.3 / The Roman Imperial Coinage, vol. II - part 3 from AD 117-138 Hadrian (1419)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2008 24 Jul-26 Aug, London, BM, 'Hadrian: Empire and Conflict'
Subjects
Associated names: Named in inscription & portrayed: Hadrian; Portrait of: Trajan (deified); Portrait of: Plotina (deified)
Acquisition name: Purchased from: John Brumell; Purchased through: Sotheby's; Purchased through: Harry Osborn Cureton
Acquisition date: 1850
Department: Coins and Medals
Registration number: 1850,0601.4
C&M catalogue number: RE3 (318) (603)

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