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Silver Denarius of Roman Emperor Hadrian - FJ.5492
Origin: Israel (Jerusalem)
Circa: 118
AD
to 137
AD
Collection: Coin Jewelry
Style: Roman
Medium: Silver/Gold
Additional Information: K.
£3,650.00
Location: UAE
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Hadrian spent much of his reign traveling about the
Roman Empire and checking into the well - being of
the cities, towns, provinces, and ordinary citizens
over whom he ruled. He was always interested in
civic
improvements, and would often have a new bridge,
road, aqueduct, or temple built when he thought that
the local citizens would benefit by such new
construction. The reign of Hadrian at the height of
the PAX ROMANA period was a time of great peace
and prosperity in the Roman Empire. He continued
the public works building projects that his adoptive
father Trajan began and strengthened the defenses
on the borders of the empire. Because of attacks on
Roman citizens living in southern Britain, he built
Hadrian's Wall across a narrow part of the island.
Hadrian was an educated emperor and a patron of
the arts. He spent most of his reign visiting the
different provinces of the empire and personally
overseeing the improvements and public works
carried out under his orders. Like Trajan and Nerva
before him, he adopted a grown man in order to
make
him heir to the throne. When his first adopted son
Aelius Caesar died of illness, Hadrian adopted
another, Antoninus Pius, who would succeed him
when Hadrian died in his bed after a long illness.
Hadrian cancelled debts and burned promissory
notes in a general amnesty for tax arrears, the event
this sestertius commemorates. The reverse depicts
either Hadrian himself or a lector applying a torch to
a heap of documents (stipulationes) symbolizing the
debts being cancelled. The burning occurred in
Trajan’s Forum, where Hadrian erected a monument
inscribed “the first of all principes and the only one
who, by remitting nine hundred million sesterces
owed to the fiscus, provided security not merely for
his present citizens but also for their descendants by
this generosity."
- (FJ.5492)
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