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Denarius - Hadrian VENERIS FELICIS •, Venus
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 137-138 |
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| Value | 1 Denarius |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Rome |
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Struck in the final months before Hadrian's death in July 138, this issue belongs to a concentrated burst of late-reign coinage in which the emperor systematically honored the major deities of the Roman pantheon — likely a calculated act of religious consolidation as succession arrangements around Antoninus Pius were being finalized. The VENERIS FELICIS type is attested in RIC II.3 as a relatively scarce emission within the broader Hadrianic series.