Date
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Obverse: IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG
Reverse: PM TRP COS III
Dimensions
Diam.: 2 cm (13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Martin A. Ryerson
Reference Number
1922.4872
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Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 29.
Theresa Gross-Diaz, “Cat. 49 Denarius Portraying Hadrian: Curatorial Entry,” in Roman Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016).
Theresa Gross-Diaz, “Cat. 50 Aureus Portraying Hadrian: Curatorial Entry,” in Roman Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), para 2.
Martin A. Ryerson (1856-1932), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.
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