Denarius - Hadrian IVSTITIA AVG P P COS III, Justitia

Justitia as a divine abstraction — distinct from the older Iustitia associated with Augustus — gained particular ideological currency under Hadrian, who actively used legal reform as a instrument of statecraft. His reign saw the codification of the Praetor's Edict under the jurist Julian around 130 AD, effectively freezing centuries of annually evolving Roman case law into permanent statute. This coin falls squarely within that legislative moment.