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Dupondius or As - Hadrian SALVS AVG S C, Salus
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 137-138 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | The goddess Salus, draped and seated left upon a throne, extends her right arm forward to feed a serpent coiled around an altar to her left, while holding a patera in her outstretched hand. Her dignified seated posture and flowing drapery are rendered in characteristic mid-Imperial relief. The altar with the entwined serpent — a symbol of healing and renewal — occupies the left field. The encircling legend names the deity and invokes senatorial authority, with S C (Senatus Consultum) flanking the central type in the lower field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Struck in the final year or two of Hadrian's reign, this issue belongs to a period when the emperor was in serious physical decline — ancient sources, including the Historia Augusta, describe him as suffering from dropsy and hemorrhaging, possibly from cardiovascular disease. The invocation of Salus at this moment was almost certainly deliberate imperial messaging rather than routine type rotation.
Hadrian died in July 138 at Baiae, making late issues of his reign chronologically tight. RIC II.3 2395 reflects the revised Carradice and Buttrey corpus, which substantially reorganized Hadrianic bronze coinage from the older RIC II arrangement.