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Denarius - Hadrian P M TR P COS III, Aequitas and Moneta
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 120-121 |
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| Reference(s) | RIC II.3#388, OCRE#ric.2_3(2).hdn.388 |
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| Reverse description | The personification of Aequitas-Moneta standing left in long draped garment, wearing a modius atop her head, holding a balance scale in her extended right hand and a cornucopia in her left arm. The figure is rendered in the classical Roman style with flowing drapery and occupies the central field of the coin. The Latin legend is distributed around the periphery of the flan, enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Mint | Rome |
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Hadrian's early coinage following his accession in 117 AD reflects an aggressive effort to legitimize a succession that many in the Senate found suspicious — Trajan had never formally adopted him, and the adoption documents surfaced only after Trajan's death, allegedly witnessed solely by his wife Plotina. The pairing of Aequitas and Moneta on this issue is pointed: fairness in weighing, fairness in governance, the scales as implicit argument for a reign that needed defending.
RIC II.3 #388 belongs to the substantial coinage reform scholarship that accompanied the second volume's 2019 revision, which reclassified numerous Hadrianic types previously lumped under broader categories.