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Sestertius - Hadrian FELICITAS AVG S C, Felicitas
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 136 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | FELICITAS AVG S C (Translation: Felicitas Augusti. Senatus Consultum. The good fortune of the emperor (Augustus). Decree of the senate.) |
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Hadrian's 136 AD coinage falls within a period of intense administrative reorganization following his abandonment of Trajan's eastern conquests — a policy reversal that required careful image management back in Rome. The FELICITAS types belong to a broad propaganda campaign promoting stability and prosperity rather than military expansion, a deliberate reorientation of imperial messaging that distinguished Hadrian sharply from his predecessor.
RIC II.3 2250 is part of the substantial 2006 revision of the original RIC II, which dramatically reorganized Hadrianic coinage and reassigned numerous pieces that had been misattributed for decades.