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Sestertius - Hadrian FORTVNAE REDVCI S C, Fortuna
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 133-135 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (133-135) |
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The FORTVNAE REDVCI reverse type — "Fortune who brings back" — was struck in the final years of Hadrian's reign almost certainly to commemorate his return from his last great tour of the eastern provinces, completed around 132 AD. By this point Hadrian was gravely ill, the Bar Kokhba revolt had just been crushed with enormous brutality, and Judaea was being renamed Syria Palaestina. The coin's optimistic theology sits in sharp tension with the political reality of those years.