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Dupondius or As - Hadrian FELICITATI AVG P P COS III S C or FELICITATI AVGVS COS III S C, Clementia
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 129-130 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed, bearded bust of Hadrian facing left, with short curly hair rendered in finely detailed strands, the emperor depicted in paludamentum. The portrait exemplifies the classicizing Hadrianic style, with a naturalistic treatment of the beard that became a hallmark of this emperor's coinage. The encircling legend reads HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS within a beaded border, distributed around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hadrian's FELICITAS coinage of 129–130 belongs to a broader programmatic series issued in the wake of his second great provincial tour, during which he visited Greece, Asia Minor, and the East. The imperial virtues celebrated on these bronzes weren't abstract flattery — they tracked specific political messaging tied to his administration of the provinces and his deliberate cultivation of philhellenic identity before the Roman senate.
RIC II.3 1174 presents a minor attribution headache: the legend variants FELICITATI AVG and FELICITATI AVGVS appear across dies that numismatists have not always cleanly separated, complicating die-study work on this particular type.