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Denarius - Hadrian IVSTITIA AVG COS III P P, Justitia
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 129-130 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (129-130) |
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Issued during Hadrian's third consulship, this denarius belongs to a substantial programmatic series celebrating virtues of Roman governance — a series scholars now read as deliberate political messaging following Hadrian's decisive break from Trajanic expansionism. Where Trajan advertised conquest, Hadrian advertised administration. The Justitia type fits squarely within that reorientation, struck at a moment when Hadrian was consolidating frontier policy and reorganizing provincial governance after his second major tour of the empire.
RIC II.3 1097 is among the more frequently encountered Justitia variants for this reign, which somewhat undercuts any claim to rarity.