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Dupondius or As - Hadrian FORTVNAE REDVCI S C, Fortuna
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 133-135 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts Fortuna Redux standing facing left, draped, holding a rudder in her right hand and a cornucopia in her left, positioned before an altar. To her left stands a second draped figure, likely representing Hadrian himself or a personification, extending a hand toward Fortuna in a gesture of reception or greeting. The senatorial authority mark S C (Senatus Consultum) appears in the exergue, divided across the lower field. The circumferential legend FORTVNAE REDVCI runs around the upper and lateral periphery, the composition celebrating the emperor's safe return to Rome. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Struck in the final years of Hadrian's reign, this issue belongs to a series commemorating his return to Rome after what proved to be his last extended provincial tour — journeys that had kept him away from the capital for much of the previous decade. The FORTVNAE REDVCI reverse type, invoking Fortuna of the Safe Return, was a conventional honorific but carried real weight here: Hadrian was by this point visibly ill, and his return was understood by contemporaries as permanent.
The RIC II.3 revision by Abdy and Browning reassigned numerous previously unattributed bronzes from this period, and #2101 sits in a section where the dupondius and as distinction remains contested due to inconsistent orichalcum coloration in surviving specimens.