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Description: | CURATOR'S REPORTA Roman coin hoard of the 2nd century.Description of the CoinsThe hoard contains twelve coins, of which eleven are silver denarii and one is a degraded copper alloy coin. The finder notes that it may be a nummus/minum, and this copper alloy coin is not likely associated with the deposition of the silver hoard. The earliest coin dates from AD 101-102 (Trajan) and the latest from AD 176 (Faustina Augusta).Summary Trajan (AD 98-117) 2Hadrian (AD 117-138) 3Sabina 1 Antoninus Pius (AD 138-61) 4Marcus Aurelius (AD 161-80) 1CatalogueTRAJAN (2)1. IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM (laureate head, right) PM TR P COS IIII P P (Hercules standing, front, head left, on altar with club and lionskin) A1* 86, p. 42 49, p. 247 1 Weight: 2.822. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P (laureate head, right) COS V P P SPQR OPTIMO PRINC (Arabia standing, left, with branch and bundle of cinnamon sticks; at feet, camel walking left) A1* 298, p. 73 142, p. 253 1 Weight: 2.71HADRIAN (4)3. IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG (laureate head, right) PM TR P COS III (Pax standing, left, with olive-branch and transverse sceptre) A2* 193, p. 264 94, p. 351 1 Weight: 2.374. IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG (laureate head, right) PM TR P COS III (Fortuna standing, left, with caduceus and cornucopia) A2* 269, p. 272 121, p. 354 1 Weight: 2.575. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS (draped bust, right) IVSTITIA AVG COS III P P (Justitia seated, left, with patera and vertical sceptre) C2+ No entrya 214varb, p. 364 1 2.60 6. SABINA AVGVSTAg (bust, right) IVNONI REGINAE (Juno standing, left, with patera and vertical sceptre) E1* 940, p. 389 395a, p. 386 1 Weight: 2.64ANTONINUS PIUS (4)7. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P COS III (laureate head, right) MONE-TA AVG (Moneta standing, left, with scales and cornucopia) A1* 220, p. 33 76, p. 34 1 Weight: 2.898. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XVI (laureate head, right) COS IIII (Annona standing, left, with corn-ears and left hand resting on modius set on prow) A1* 786, p. 114 221, p. 53 1 Weight: 2.519. DIVA FAVSTINA (bust, right) AVGV-STA (Vesta, veiled, standing left with simpulum and palladium) E1* 436, p. 62 368, p. 71 1 Weight: 2.4610. AVRELIVS CAESAR AVG PII F COS (head, right) PIETAS AVG (knife, sprinkler, ewer, lituus, and simpulum) A1+ 278, p. 42 424, p. 79 1 Weight: 2.85MARCUS AURELIUS (1)11. FAVSTINA AVGVSTA (diademed bust, right) FECVNDITAS (Fecunditas standing, right, with sceptre and child on arm) E2* 91, p. 398 677, p. 269 1 Weight: 2.57a COS III is in the legend and not the exergue. The British Museum does not have any coins of this legend type for seated Justitia.bRIC only lists a laureate bust for this obverse type. Head is bare.gPossibly plated?
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