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Silver Denarius Of The Roman Emperor Hadrian - FJ.1427
Origin: Israel (Sebastia, Samaria)
Circa: 117
AD
to 138
AD
Collection: Roman
Medium: Silver-Gold-Amethyst
Additional Information: K.This superb coin has been set in an 18 karat gold pendant and strung in a necklace with genuine amethyst and lapis lazuli beads and with a 14 karat gold clasp.
£1,600.00
Location: Great Britain
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Publius Aelius Hadrianus; 24 January 76 – 10 July
138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was
born into a Roman Italo-Hispanic family that settled
in Spain from the Italian city of Atri in Picenum. His
father was of senatorial rank and was a first cousin of
Emperor Trajan. He married Trajan's grand-niece
Vibia Sabina early in his career, before Trajan became
emperor and possibly at the behest of Trajan's wife
Pompeia Plotina. Plotina and Trajan's close friend and
adviser Lucius Licinius Sura were well disposed
towards Hadrian. When Trajan died, his widow
claimed that he had nominated Hadrian as emperor
immediately before his death.
Rome's military and Senate approved Hadrian's
succession, but four leading senators were unlawfully
put to death soon after. They had opposed Hadrian
or seemed to threaten his succession, and the senate
held him responsible for it and never forgave him. He
earned further disapproval among the elite by
abandoning Trajan's expansionist policies and
territorial gains in Mesopotamia, Assyria, Armenia,
and parts of Dacia. Hadrian preferred to invest in the
development of stable, defensible borders and the
unification of the empire's disparate peoples. He is
known for building Hadrian's Wall, which marked the
northern limit of Britannia.
Hadrian energetically pursued his own Imperial ideals
and personal interests. He visited almost every
province of the Empire, accompanied by an Imperial
retinue of specialists and administrators. He
encouraged military preparedness and discipline, and
he fostered, designed, or personally subsidised
various civil and religious institutions and building
projects. In Rome itself, he rebuilt the Pantheon and
constructed the vast Temple of Venus and Roma. In
Egypt, he may have rebuilt the Serapeum of
Alexandria. He was an ardent admirer of Greece and
sought to make Athens the cultural capital of the
Empire, so he ordered the construction of many
opulent temples there. His intense relationship with
Greek youth Antinous and the latter's untimely death
led Hadrian to establish a widespread cult late in his
reign. He suppressed the Bar Kokhba revolt in
Judaea, but his reign was otherwise peaceful.
Hadrian's last years were marred by chronic illness.
He saw the Bar Kokhba revolt as the failure of his
panhellenic ideal. He executed two more senators for
their alleged plots against him, and this provoked
further resentment. His marriage to Vibia Sabina had
been unhappy and childless; he adopted Antoninus
Pius in 138 and nominated him as a successor, on the
condition that Antoninus adopt Marcus Aurelius and
Lucius Verus as his own heirs. Hadrian died the same
year at Baiae, and Antoninus had him deified, despite
opposition from the Senate. Edward Gibbon includes
him among the Empire's "Five Good Emperors", a
"benevolent dictator"; Hadrian's own senate found
him remote and authoritarian. He has been described
as enigmatic and contradictory, with a capacity for
both great personal generosity and extreme cruelty
and driven by insatiable curiosity, self-conceit, and
ambition
- (FJ.1427)
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