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Dupondius or As - Hadrian INDVLGENTIA AVG P P COS III S C, Indulgentia

Issuer Roman Imperial Mint
Year 129-130
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Technique Hammered
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Obverse lettering HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS
(Translation: Hadrianus Augustus. Hadrian, emperor (Augustus).)
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Mintage ND (129-130)
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Hadrian's *indulgentia* issues commemorate a specific act: the remission of outstanding debts owed to the imperial treasury. In 118 AD, shortly after his accession, Hadrian ordered the destruction of tax records covering some 900 million sesterces in arrears — a calculated gesture of goodwill toward the senatorial and equestrian classes that had grown uneasy under Trajan's final years. These bronzes, struck a decade later, appear to revisit that memory deliberately, possibly timed to provincial tours where such imagery carried direct political utility.

The COS III dating anchors production to 128–138, with RIC II.3 placing this specific variant in the narrower 129–130 window.

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