Hadrian's third consulship, held continuously from 119 AD, anchors this issue precisely within the early reorganization of his reign — a period when he was actively dismantling Trajan's eastern expansions and redirecting imperial resources toward consolidation. The Pietas type appears across multiple denominations in this phase, part of a deliberate program promoting traditional Roman religious virtue as political currency after the turbulence of the Trajanic succession.
RIC II.3 #481 reflects the 2007 revision of the original RIC volume, which substantially reattributed and renumbered Hadrianic bronzes as scholarship on mint organization advanced.
Hadrian's third consulship, held continuously from 119 AD, anchors this issue precisely within the early reorganization of his reign — a period when he was actively dismantling Trajan's eastern expansions and redirecting imperial resources toward consolidation. The Pietas type appears across multiple denominations in this phase, part of a deliberate program promoting traditional Roman religious virtue as political currency after the turbulence of the Trajanic succession.
RIC II.3 #481 reflects the 2007 revision of the original RIC volume, which substantially reattributed and renumbered Hadrianic bronzes as scholarship on mint organization advanced.