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Trajan / Denarius / Aequitas reverse35 viewsAttribution: RIC 118 (RIC II)
Date: 107-111 AD
Obverse: Laureate bust right, drapery on left shoulder
Reverse: Aequitas standing with scales and cornucopia
Weight: 3.41 grams
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Hadrian, AE As, LIBERALITAS AVG46 viewsAttribution: RIC 729 variant (RIC II)
Date: 117-138 AD
Obverse: HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS laureate heroic bust left
Reverse: LIBERALITAS AVG COS III PP Liberalitas with cornucopiae
Size: 28mm
Weight: 11.45 grams
Comments from Curtis Clay...
c. 129-131 AD according to my reconstruction, assuming an approximately even production of denarii year by year from 128-138. I see no likelihood in Mattingly's assumption that the mint of Rome struck few coins while Hadrian was away on his second great tour of the provinces, which would result in a later date for your coin.
The coinage of 128-138 is very difficult to date, because the coins bear no titles that specify the year of striking and virtually none of the events commemorated - such as the largesse on your coin - can be firmly dated from other sources.
That's a very fine As, and rather scarce too I think, especially with portrait left.
and also...
Strack, Hadrian 819, reports this middle bronze with head laureate left, maybe just like Brian's, from the St. Pertersburg collection.
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