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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: HADRIAN, AD 117-138. AR Denarius.
Obverse: HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, His laureated head to the right.
Reverse: COS III, Virtus standing left, holding spear and parazonium,her left foot on a helmet.
Reference: RIC 160 (see note on 147); Van Meter 15/14, Cohen 353. Grade EF.
Comments: For more information, read "Hadrian" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Hadrian see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.