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Denarius - Hadrian FELICITAS AVG, Felicitas
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 133-135 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | The personification of Felicitas, the divine embodiment of good fortune and prosperity, stands facing left in long flowing robes rendered in fine drapery folds. In her raised right hand she holds a caduceus, the winged staff of Mercury symbolizing peace and commerce, while her left arm cradles a cornucopia overflowing with abundance. The figure is rendered in a classical contrapposto stance within a plain field, framed by a continuous beaded border. The abbreviated Latin legend encircles the type, identifying the goddess in relation to the reigning emperor. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hadrian's extended tours of the provinces between 121 and 132 AD — unprecedented in scope for a reigning emperor — generated sustained propaganda around the theme of felicitas, framing his travels not as inspection or military necessity but as a source of imperial blessing for the regions visited. This issue belongs to a broad series of types struck in the early 130s that catalogued those journeys retrospectively, each province and abstraction receiving its own reverse type in what amounts to a systematic numismatic record of his reign's ideological priorities.