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Sestertius - Hadrian FELICITATI AVG COS III P P S C
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 129-130 |
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| Reference(s) | RIC II.3#1338, OCRE#ric.2_3(2).hdn.1338 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | FELICITATI AVG COS III P P S C (Translation: Felicitati Augusti, Consul Tertium, Pater Patriae. Senatus Consultum. To the good fortune of the emperor (Augustus), consul for the third time, father of the nation. Decree of the senate.) |
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The FELICITAS type was issued during Hadrian's third consulship, a period when he was deep into his second major tour of the provinces — having already traversed Gaul, Britain, Spain, and North Africa. The reverse legend was a deliberate piece of imperial messaging: the emperor's perpetual movement through the empire framed not as restlessness but as the very mechanism of Roman prosperity. Hadrian's traveling court functioned as a mobile administration, and these bronzes circulated in a system he was personally inspecting.
RIC II.3 #1338 belongs to the revised Spink corpus that substantially reorganized Hadrian's enormous sestertius output, which earlier scholarship had catalogued inconsistently across multiple emission groups.