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Hadrian (AD 117-138). AV aureus (19mm, 7.08 gm, 7h). NGC Choice VF 4/5 - 4/5, Fine Style, flaw. Rome, AD 125-128. HADRIANVS-AVGVSTVS, laureate bust of Hadrian left, with slight drapery visible on right shoulder / C-O-S, she-wolf standing left, suckling twins Romulus and Remus; barred III in exergue. Calicó 1235 (same dies). RIC II.3 710. Lovely Fine Style, left facing portrait on a flan with underlying luster.
This reverse evokes the Founding of Rome Myth. Romulus and Remus were twins and children of Rhea Silvia, a Vestal Virgin, who was impregnated by Mars while she slept. Her uncle, King Amulius feared they would threaten his reign and ordered their deaths. So in order to protect her babies from him, Silvia placed her children in a basket and placed them in the Tiber river, hoping fate would guide them to safety. With the help of the river god Tiberinus, the baby boys wound up at the future sight of Rome and they were found by the she-wolf. She nursed them and raised them for a time until they were adopted by a shepherd, Faustulus. The image of Romulus and Remus with the she-wolf became an icon of Rome; it was continuously depicted in art throughout the years of the Empire and into modern times.
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Hadrian (AD 117-138). AV aureus (19mm, 7.08 gm, 7h). NGC Choice VF 4/5 - 4/5, Fine Style, flaw. Rome, AD 125-128. HADRIANVS-AVGVSTVS, laureate bust of Hadrian left, with slight drapery visible on right shoulder / C-O-S, she-wolf standing left, suckling twins Romulus and Remus; barred III in exergue. Calicó 1235 (same dies). RIC II.3 710. Lovely Fine Style, left facing portrait on a flan with underlying luster.
This reverse evokes the Founding of Rome Myth. Romulus and Remus were twins and children of Rhea Silvia, a Vestal Virgin, who was impregnated by Mars while she slept. Her uncle, King Amulius feared they would threaten his reign and ordered their deaths. So in order to protect her babies from him, Silvia placed her children in a basket and placed them in the Tiber river, hoping fate would guide them to safety. With the help of the river god Tiberinus, the baby boys wound up at the future sight of Rome and they were found by the she-wolf. She nursed them and raised them for a time until they were adopted by a shepherd, Faustulus. The image of Romulus and Remus with the she-wolf became an icon of Rome; it was continuously depicted in art throughout the years of the Empire and into modern times.
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HID02906262019
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