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Hadrian, 11 August 117 - 10 July 138 A.D.
Hadrian traveled to nearly every province of the Empire and spent more than half his reign outside Italy. Nero had been criticized as self-indulgent for his trip to Greece, but Hadrian proudly advertised his travels with his "Adventus" coinage series. Unlike Nero, the pleasure-seeking tourist, Hadrian inspected and corrected the legions and made grants for the construction of new public buildings, projects, and settlements. Hadrian travels were intended to transform conquered lands into a unified Roman Empire.RB72514. Orichalcum sestertius, RIC II 941 (R), BMCRE III 1790, Hunter II 639, Cohen II 1226, SRCV II 3628 var. (bare head), aF, porosity, Rome mint, weight 23.068g, maximum diameter 32.2mm, die axis 0o, 131 - 138 A.D.; obverse HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate and draped bust right; reverse RESTITVTORI AFRICAE, Hadrian on right, standing left, raising kneeling Africa with right hand, volumen in his left, she wears an elephant scalp headdress, two stalks of grain in her left, three stalks of grain growing between them, S C (senatus consulto) in exergue; ex CNG auction 284, lot 333; rare; SOLD
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