Sabina, Rome mint, 135 AD.,
Denarius (18-19 mm / 3,18 g), silver, axis coin alignment ↑↓ (ca. 180°),
Obv.: SABINA - AVGVSTA , draped bust of Sabina right, hair falling down neck in plait, and rises on top in crest over stephane above thin diadem.
Rev.: CONCOR - DIA AVG , Concordia, draped, seated l., holding long scepter in her l. hand, patera in her outstretched r. hand; cornucopiae below seat.
RIC II p. 386, no. 391 (Hadrian) ; BMC 358, 932 ; Coh. 24 .
ex Kurpfälzische Münzhandlung Auktion 42, Mannheim 1992, no. 447 (260 DM)
lustrous fields, blue-gray toned silver patina from old collection
While Sabina's mother, Matidia, may have been quite fond of Hadrian, the same cannot be said of his wife Sabina. Their marriage in 100 essentially guaranteed Hadrian as successor to Trajan, but it did not bring with it domestic bliss. Hadrian was a flagrant adulterer, both with married women and handsome youths such as his favorite companion, the Bithynian youth Antinoüs. Hadrian, however, would not tolerate such behavior from his wife; in 121 or 122 he dismissed his praetorian prefect Septicius Clarus and the historian Suetonius, both court officials with whom Sabina had developed close relationships. After an unpleasant thirty-six year marriage, Sabina died in 136 or 137. It was widely rumored that her husband, knowing that his death was not far off, either her poisoned or forced her to commit suicide.
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