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Object Type
Museum number: 1911,0414.129
Denomination: denarius
Description: Silver coin. (whole); Laureate head of Hadrian, facing right. (obverse); Hadrian, togate, seated facing left on a platform on the right, holding a pen in his right hand: at his left side stands an officer: in the background centre is ?Liberalitas, standing facing the front: on the steps up to the platform on the left is a citizen, standing facing right, holding out the fold of his toga. (reverse)
State
Authority
Cultures/periods
Production date: 119-123
Production place: Minted in: Rome (city)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Edwinstowe (Edwinstowe hoard)
Materials
Dimensions: Die-axis: 6 o'clock; Weight: 3.25 grammes
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: RE3 / Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, vol.III: Nerva to Hadrian (297, p. 276); Strack (Hadrian) / Die Reichspraegung zur Zeit des Hadrian (71); Robertson 2000 / An Inventory of Romano-British Coin Hoards (314, pp.64-65); RIC2 / The Roman imperial coinage, vol. 2: Vespasian to Hadrian (131, p.355); RIC2.3 / The Roman Imperial Coinage, vol. II - part 3 from AD 117-138 Hadrian (312)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: emperor/empress; allegory/personification; politics
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1911
Department: Coins and Medals
Registration number: 1911,0414.129
C&M catalogue number: RE3 (276) (297)

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