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MARTI.--The figure of Mars stands helmeted and in a military dress, his right hand grasping the hasta ferrata or iron-headed lance, and his left placed on a shield resting on the ground. On this rare silver medal Hadrian is depicted in the form of Mars. "A similar image, says Vailant, may be seen in Parian marble at the Capitol in Rome, with this sole, difference, that in the statue Hadrian is represented naked; while on the coin he appears in the costume of a warrior."