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.