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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Featured Collections| > |Michael Arslan Collection| > RS111203
Hadrian, 11 August 117 - 10 July 138 A.D.
|Michael| |Arslan| |Collection|, |Hadrian,| |11| |August| |117| |-| |10| |July| |138| |A.D.|, In 128, Hadrian's Wall was completed. Built mostly of stone in the east and with a wooden palisade in the west, it included at least 16 forts. About 15,000 legionaries constructed the wall; digging ditches, quarrying rock and cutting stone, preventing idleness which led to unrest and rebellions in the ranks.
RS111203. Silver denarius, RIC II-3 848, RSC II 358(b), BMCRE III 422, Strack 179, SRCV II 3480 var. (slight drapery), Hunter II 144 var. (same), aVF/F, superb portrait, light tone, flow lines, porous, ragged edge with flan splits and cracks, Rome mint, weight 2.850g, maximum diameter 18.8mm, die axis 225o, 125 - 128 A.D.; obverse HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, laureate head right; reverse COS III, Victory standing half right, naked to the waist, right hand on head, long grounded palm frond vertical in left; from the Michael Arslan Collection; SOLD




  







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