Denarius - Hadrian IVSTITIA AVG P P COS III, Justitia

Hadrian's sustained promotion of Justitia on his coinage during the late 120s and early 130s was deliberate political messaging — he was actively distancing his administration from the feared delatores system that had flourished under Domitian and, to a lesser extent, Trajan. The COS III dating places this squarely in the years of his extensive provincial travels, when projecting judicial virtue from Rome while he was absent carried obvious practical weight.

RIC II.3 1036 is among the more frequently encountered Justitia types of the reign, though die wear on the reverse is uneven across known specimens.