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ID number: BIRBI-R1147 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Hadrian; Rome Denomination: Sestertius Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 119 - 122 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.25 Weight (g): 28.10 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 3963. A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd, 1963. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Hadrian, r., laureate, draped on l. shoulder. Reverse: Hadrian seated l. on a platform on r., extending r. hand; facing him, a woman holding a child on her l. arm and placing her r. hand on the head of a second child beside her.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP CAESAR TRAIANVS HADRIANVS AVG (Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus). Reverse: PONT MAX TR POT COS III S C; LIBERTAS RESTI/TVTA in exergue (Head of the principal college of priests, Tribune of the people, Consul for the third time, by order of the Senate; Liberty restored).
Bibliography: RIC II 1st ed. 568
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