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Dupondius or As - Hadrian HISPANIA S C, Hispania
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 130-133 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of Emperor Hadrian facing left, depicted with characteristic short curly hair and closely cropped beard, rendered in a naturalistic Hadrianic portrait style. The emperor's neck and upper shoulder are visible, lending a sculptural quality to the effigy. A beaded border runs along the inner rim of the coin. The imperial titulature legend is disposed around the bust within the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (130-133) |
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This coin belongs to Hadrian's remarkable series of "province" types, struck in Rome to commemorate his unprecedented empire-wide tours of the 120s and early 130s. No emperor before him had traveled so extensively through the provinces, and the series — covering roughly a dozen territories — was almost certainly a deliberate propaganda exercise, advertising personal inspections of the frontiers and local populations. Hispania was among the most symbolically loaded choices: it was Hadrian's own ancestral province, his family having settled there generations before his birth in Italica.