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Sestertius - Hadrian FELICITAS AVG S C, Felicitas
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint (Rome) |
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| Year | 133-135 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed, draped bust of Emperor Hadrian facing right, rendered in three-quarter rear view, with the emperor's characteristic short curly hair and beard clearly visible. The portrait displays the refined Hadrianic sculptural style, with drapery folds visible across the left shoulder. The encircling legend is incuse in Latin capitals along the outer border of the field. |
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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 extensive travels through the provinces between 121 and 132 AD generated an unusually broad series of coinage celebrating imperial virtues, with Felicitas — the personification of prosperity and good fortune — appearing frequently as the emissions became increasingly programmatic. The FELICITAS AVG types belong to a later phase of his reign, issued after he had largely abandoned travel and returned permanently to Rome, where construction of the Temple of Venus and Roma was nearing completion and attention had shifted toward consolidating his domestic program.
The Antonine succession arrangement, formalized by 136 AD with the adoption of Lucius Ceionius Commodus, was very much in political motion during this coin's production window.