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Sestertius - Hadrian FELICITAS AVG S C, Felicitas
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 133-135 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Emperor Hadrian facing right, portrayed with the emperor's characteristic beard, rendered in the Hellenistic portraiture style favoured during his reign. The effigy displays a robust, naturalistic modelling of the facial features. The circumferential Latin legend encircles the bust, reading HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P. The flan shows the warm golden-brown patina characteristic of orichalcum sestertii, with the portrait occupying the central field in high relief typical of Hadrianic bronze coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P (Translation: Hadrianus Augustus, Consul Tertium, Pater Patriae. Hadrian, emperor (Augustus), consul for the third time, father of the nation.) |
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Hadrian's FELICITAS coinage belongs to the great provincial travel series of his reign — a sustained propaganda effort in which the emperor used the coinage to commemorate his personal visits to virtually every corner of the empire between roughly 121 and 132 AD. Felicitas here functions not as abstract good fortune but as a direct claim that Rome's prosperity flowed from Hadrian's physical presence and administration in the provinces.
RIC II.3 2109 falls in the later sequence of this output, post-dating the Bar Kokhba revolt's outbreak in Judaea around 132.