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Author Topic: An interesting Hadrian sestertius  (Read 53 times)

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Offline pacorro

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An interesting Hadrian sestertius
« on: March 24, 2024, 06:46:06 pm »
Hi,

I've never seen such a sestertius.
The Neptune reverse is known (however the style seems to be a little rough).
But on the obverse the bust is strange, and I've never seen this text with OPT.
All of the examples I found were with HADRANUS AUGUSTUS, not with HADRIANUS OPT AUGUSTUS.

What do you think?
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Offline Victor C

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Re: An interesting Hadrian sestertius
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2024, 07:08:05 pm »
The new RIC volume for Hadrian has one coin with the same obverse legend (1593) but a different reverse. In the footnotes, it says it "is clearly barbarous in style and carries inappropriate obverse legend."
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