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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: HADRIAN, AD 117-138. AR Denarius.
Obverse: HADRIANVS AVG. COS. III P. P., His bare head right.
Reverse: ASIA, Figure of Asia standing left, resting the right foot on prow, holding acrostolium and oar or rudder.
Reference: RIC 301; Sear 1080, Van Meter 13, Cohen 189. Grade: Vf/aVF
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.