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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Adoptive Emperors| > |Hadrian| > RS98757
Hadrian, 11 August 117 - 10 July 138 A.D.
|Hadrian|, |Hadrian,| |11| |August| |117| |-| |10| |July| |138| |A.D.|, Salus was the Roman goddess of health. She was Hygieia to the Greeks, who believed her to be the daughter of Aesculapius, the god of medicine and healing, and Epione, the goddess of soothing of pain. Coins dedicated to Salus Augusti, like this coin, probably indicate the emperor was at the time suffering from some disease, and sacred rites had been performed for his recovery.
RS98757. Silver denarius, RIC II-3 2346, RSC II 1328, BMCRE III 721, Strack II 266, Hunter II -, SRCV II -, gF, well centered, nice portrait, flow lines, edge ragged with small splits and cracks, Rome mint, weight 3.229g, maximum diameter 19.6mm, die axis 180o, 137 - Jul 138 A.D.; obverse HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, bare head right; reverse SALVS AVG (the health of the Emperor), Salus standing half left, head left, sacrificing out of patera in right hand over lighted altar, scepter in left hand; ex Numismatic Naumann auction 110 (7 Nov 2021), part of lot 1542; SOLD










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Bernhard, O. Griechische und Römische Münzbilder in ihren Beziehungen zur Geschichte der Medizin. (Zurich, 1926).

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