Sestertius - Hadrian INDVLGENTIA AVG P P COS III S C, Indulgentia

The INDVLGENTIA type commemorates Hadrian's formal remission of debts owed to the imperial treasury — a sweeping act of financial clemency conducted around 128–129 AD in which records of outstanding tax arrears were publicly burned in the Forum of Trajan. Ancient sources suggest the cancelled debt amounted to the equivalent of nine hundred million sesterces, a figure staggering enough that the event warranted its own coinage. Hadrian repeated a version of this act later in his reign, making it a deliberate political gesture rather than a one-time response to crisis.