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Aureus - Hadrian SECVRITAS AVG, Securitas

Issuer Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD)
Year 137-138
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Weight 7.27 g
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Obverse lettering HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P
(Translation: Hadrianus Augustus, Consul Tertium, Pater Patriae. Hadrian, emperor (Augustus), consul for the third time, father of the nation.)
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Edge Plain
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Struck in the final year of Hadrian's reign, when the emperor was gravely ill at Baiae and had already adopted Antoninus Pius as his successor. The Securitas type issued at this moment was less a political boast than a deliberate signal — that the succession was settled, the empire stable, and the transition orderly. Hadrian died in July 138, making coins from this narrow window among the last aurei produced under his authority.

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