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Dupondius or As - Hadrian ADVENTVS AVG S C, Roma
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 133-135 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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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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| Edge | Plain |
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The ADVENTVS coinage of Hadrian's reign documents something unusual in Roman imperial practice: an emperor who actually traveled. Between 121 and 132 AD, Hadrian visited nearly every province in the empire, and the mint issued a sustained series of arrival types commemorating specific destinations — Britain, Egypt, Mauretania, and others — each with its own reverse. The Roma type sits within this series not as a provincial arrival but as a homecoming, struck following Hadrian's final return to Italy after years abroad.
RIC II.3 2073 is catalogued under the later emission, placing this piece in the 133–135 window, after the Bar Kokhba revolt had concluded and Judaea been renamed Syria Palaestina.