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Denarius - Hadrian FORTVNAE REDVCI, Fortuna
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 133-135 |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Emperor Hadrian facing right, with the characteristic short beard rendered in finely modelled curls, viewed from the rear or side. The emperor's paludamentum drapes over the left shoulder, conveying imperial authority. The portrait displays the refined Hellenistic artistic influence characteristic of Hadrianic coinage from the Roman mint. The surrounding field bears the Latin imperial titulature arranged circularly, reading from the lower left. |
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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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The legend FORTVNAE REDVCI — Fortuna the Home-Bringer — almost certainly commemorates Hadrian's final return to Rome after two decades of near-continuous travel through the provinces. By 134, he was back in Italy for good, his great touring program finished. The Senate had used this same epithet for Augustus returning from the East, and Hadrian's mint recycled the honorific with full awareness of that precedent.
RIC II.3 2002 dates to the last concentrated issue before Hadrian's health collapsed entirely. He died in 138 at Baiae.