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Sestertius - Hadrian FELICITAS AVGVSTI S C, Felicitas
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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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, with the paludamentum fastened at the shoulder, the portrait rendered in the characteristic Hadrianic style with short curled beard and hair arranged in tight ringlets beneath the laurel wreath. The legend encircles the bust along the coin's periphery, read clockwise from the lower left. The high-relief portrait displays the hallmark Hadrianic naturalism, with fine engraving detail visible on the drapery folds at the truncation. |
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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 reign saw an unusually sustained program of sestertius types celebrating abstract virtues, driven in part by his Hellenistic philosophical inclinations and a deliberate policy of projecting imperial stability after the turmoil of Trajan's final wars. The FELICITAS AVGVSTI types of 133–135 fall within his last major emission, issued as his health was visibly failing and succession arrangements around Antoninus Pius were being formalized — the coinage projecting a confidence the court itself may not have felt.