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Dupondius or As - Hadrian ANNONA AVG S C, Annona
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 133-135 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The personification of Annona stands facing left in full figure, rendered in a calm and stately pose. She holds ears of grain in her right hand and a long rudder resting upon a ship's prow in her left, symbolising the maritime supply of Rome's grain. At her feet to the left stands a modius, the standard measure of grain, reinforcing the allegorical message of imperial provisioning. The exergual area is plain, while the field carries the senatorial mark S C flanking the legend. A dotted border runs along the coin's edge. |
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Hadrian's ANNONA AVG coinage of 133–135 belongs to a sustained campaign to advertise imperial grain management at a moment when the annona — the state system for provisioning Rome — had become a significant political instrument. Hadrian traveled more than any emperor before him, and his absences from Rome made visible demonstrations of supply stability all the more necessary. The modius and ship's prow standard to this type are closely tied to Ostia's expanded harbor infrastructure, which Trajan had built and Hadrian continued to exploit.
RIC II.3 2146 reflects the updated Strack-influenced reorganization of Hadrian's enormous bronze output, which remains one of the most complex sequences in the second-century series.