Hadrian Æ Medallion. Rome, circa AD 123-128.

HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, laureate bust right, fold of cloak on front shoulder and around neck at back /
COS III in exergue, eagle standing left, head right, on thunderbolt, between owl perched right on shield and peacock in splendor, standing left on scepter.
Gnecchi 64 (three specimens); Cohen 431; Banti 207.
19.4 g, 35 mm.
Good Very Fine
Extremely Rare.
Re‑carved and smoothed, with an added patina.

The three birds are those of the Capitoline Triad; Jupiter (eagle), Juno (peacock), and Minerva (owl). Bronze medallions, introduced under Trajan, were struck on ordinary sestertius and middle-bronze flans. This piece has been made from sestertius-size dies.

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