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17C107 Head of young Hadrian of exceptional beauty and distinction / Hadrian standing between standards. RIC 204. Ex HAS Huntington Collection. Virtually all of Hadrian's portraits show a middle-aged man with a full, closely cropped beard. However, on this aureus we observe a separate category of portrait: a youthful Hadrian with a partial beard that culminates into two tufts of hair at his jaw line which was described by Mattingly and Sydenham as a portrait of "exceptional beauty and distinction." Hill was probably correct when he described this aureus as having been struck by Antoninus Pius in 138 A.D., shortly after Hadrian's death. Most scholars, however, have seen it as a lifetime issue struck c. 132-135 A.D. All considered, it seems that this aureus was struck perhaps soon after Hadrian's death as a special issue. Very Rar. |
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Catalogue XVII
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