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Dupondius - Hadrian FELICITAS AVGVSTI S C, Felicitas
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 121-123 |
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| Reference(s) | RIC II.3#609, OCRE#ric.2_3(2).hdn.609 |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Rome |
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Felicitas — divine embodiment of good fortune and prosperity — became a pointed propaganda instrument under Hadrian, whose reign opened with the calculated cancellation of debts owed to the imperial treasury, a gesture documented by Cassius Dio and made physically real by a public bonfire of debt records in the Forum of Trajan. Coins invoking Felicitas in these early regnal years belong to that same campaign of legitimation, projecting an image of abundance following the anxious final years under Trajan.
RIC II.3 609 falls within the reorganized typology established by the revised second edition, which substantially reclassified Hadrianic bronzes previously grouped under older RIC II attributions.