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Sestertius - Hadrian FORTVNA AVG S C, Fortuna
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 133-135 |
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| Reference(s) | RIC II.3#2118, OCRE#ric.2_3(2).hdn.2118 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Struck in the final years of Hadrian's reign, this sestertius belongs to a period when the emperor had largely withdrawn from active campaigning and was increasingly preoccupied with succession arrangements — Aelius Caesar was adopted in 136, a choice that unsettled the Senate considerably. The invocation of Fortuna Augusta at this moment was less celebratory than stabilizing, a mint policy aimed at projecting divine favor onto an administration that many senators viewed with deepening suspicion.
RIC II.3 2118 is part of the major re-attribution work published in 2019, which substantially reorganized Hadrianic bronze coinage previously catalogued under the older RIC II framework.