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Denarius - Hadrian SECVRITAS PVBLICA COS III P P, Securitas

Issuer Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD)
Year 129-130
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Currency Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215)
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Obverse lettering HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS
(Translation: Hadrianus Augustus. Hadrian, emperor (Augustus).)
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Edge Plain
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Struck during Hadrian's third consulship, this issue belongs to a substantial programmatic coinage that advertised imperial themes across dozens of reverse types simultaneously — a propaganda campaign in metal rather than stone. The SECVRITAS PVBLICA reverse invoked public security at a moment of studied calm: Hadrian had abandoned Trajan's eastern conquests, consolidated the Danube frontier, and was deep into his first great tour of the provinces.

RIC II.3 1129 is well-documented in the revised Hadrian corpus published in 2019, which substantially reorganized and renumbered his coinage. Collectors working from the older RIC II should note the sequence has shifted considerably.

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