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Denarius - Hadrian FORTVNA AVG, Fortuna
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 133-135 |
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| Value | 1 Denarius |
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| Reverse description | The goddess Fortuna depicted standing left in full figure, draped in a long chiton and palla, extending a patera in her right hand and cradling a cornucopia in her left arm. The figure stands on a low ground line, rendered in the classical allegorical style characteristic of Hadrianic coinage. The abbreviated legend FORTVNA AVG is distributed in the field to either side of the deity, with a beaded border encircling the design. The composition conveys the emperor's divine favor and the prosperity associated with his reign. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hadrian's sustained propaganda around Fortuna reflected a reign defined by deliberate consolidation rather than conquest — a pointed departure from Trajan's expansionism. When Hadrian abandoned Mesopotamia shortly after his accession in 117 AD, the Senate bristled, and the Fortuna types issued across his reign functioned in part as ideological justification: imperial luck, not military failure, explained the retraction of Rome's eastern frontier.
RIC II.3 2011 falls within the final emission group of Hadrian's coinage, struck in the last two to three years before his death in 138.