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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: AELIUS, Caesar AD 136-8, under Hadrian. As (25mm).
Obverse: (AELIUS) CAESAR, His bare and bearded head to the right.
Reverse: Spes advancing left, holding flower and raising slightly the drapery of her dress.
Reference: RIC 1056. Grade: F/VF.
Comments: For more information, read "Hadrian" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Lucius Aelius see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.