- Very Good Emperor Hadrian Roman Empire copper As coin.
- Hadrian was the adopted father of Emperor Antoninus Pius.
- Struck 134 to 138 CE at the Rome Mint.
- Approx 25mm, 9.53g, RIC 796.
- Obverse: HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate head right.
- Reverse: ANNONA AVG SC, Annona standing left holding grain ears in right hand over modius and rudder in left hand, resting on ship.
- Annona was the divine personification of the grain supply to the city of Rome, the modius with stalks of grain and sometimes poppy, hanging or rising from it, indicates the fertility of the empire and the Imperial liberality and providence in procuring, and in bestowing grain to the people.
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