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Sestertius - Hadrian FELICITATI AVG P P COS III S C or FELICITATI AVGVS COS III S C
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 129-130 |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed, draped bust of Hadrian facing left, rendered in high relief with finely detailed curled hair and a short beard characteristic of the emperor's well-known portraiture. The effigy is depicted from the rear-left perspective, with paludamentum visible at the shoulder. The encircling Latin legend runs along the beaded border of the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS (Translation: Hadrianus Augustus. Hadrian, emperor (Augustus).) |
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Issued during Hadrian's third consulship and likely connected to his extensive provincial tours of the late 120s, this sestertius invokes Felicitas — the personification of prosperity and good fortune — in a manner that reads as deliberate political messaging tied to the emperor's return journeys rather than any single military event. Hadrian had restructured the imperial travel program more systematically than any predecessor, and the *Felicitas* coinage broadly reflects the ideological framing of those tours as blessings conferred upon the empire.