Post Your Hadrian Coins

Hadrian the travelling emperor, Always on the move , consolidating his Roman empire Trajanus left him, erected many temples, new cities and ofcause Hadrian's wall.
his favourite countries Greece and Egypt, his nickname el Greco., first roman emperor with a beard greek style, since then all roman emperors had a beard.
There's a dutch guy, Okidoki on Cointalk who bought hundreds and hundreds of Hadrian coins, possibly the largest collection around.

I am probably more excited about it than she.

There are a few different types of the travel coins.

There are eight denarii designs commemorating Hadrian's trips to the regions:
Africa
Alexandria
Asia
Egypt
Germany
Italy
Nile River
Spain

Then there are the "Adventvi Avg" series commemorating his arrival to certain places:
Africa
Arabia
Asia
Bithynia
Britain
Cilicia
Gaul
Italy
Macedonia
Mauretania
Moesia
Noricum
Parthia
Phrygia
Spain
Thrace

And also the "Restorer" series:
Achaea
Africa
Arabia
Asia
Bithynia
Cilicia
Gaul
Italy
Libya
Macedonia
Nicomedia
Phrygia
Spain

Then there are some military exercise commemoratives:
Britain
Cappedocia
Dacia
Germany
Mauretania
Moesia
Parthia
Rhaetia
Spain
Syria

And some coins commemorating Trajan and Hadrian's mines:
Dalmatia
Dardania
Noricum
Pannonia

The set can get fairly extensive, or can be kept to the 8 denarius pieces. As would be expected, some of the locales are quite hard to come by, but the 8 denarii are all pretty common. I suspect we will start with the 8 places then decide on whether to expand it.

I should mention how timely this thread in light of my next reading assignment.







Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar

This is (or was!) Hadrian.


My only example of him in my collection, unfortunately.

That Hadrian drachm with the elephants is sweet

Here's my best Hadrian Denarius. I picked it up at CGB in France when I was there a few years ago. They had a ridiculous selection of them, but this had by far the best portrait.