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Denarius - Hadrian P M TR P COS III LIB PVB, Libertas
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 120-121 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG (Translation: Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus. Supreme commander (Imperator), Caesar, Trajan Hadrian, emperor (Augustus).) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hadrian's "Libertas Publica" coinage of 120–121 AD belongs to a broader programmatic issue celebrating constitutional virtues — a deliberate contrast to Trajan's martial emphasis. Hadrian had just returned from consolidating the Rhine and Danube frontiers, formally abandoning Trajan's Mesopotamian conquests, a strategic retreat his contemporaries found deeply controversial. The Libertas types were part of a coordinated propaganda effort to reframe retrenchment as principled governance rather than weakness.
RIC II.3 #363 reflects the revised Mattingly–Sydenham numbering from the 2019 second edition, which substantially reorganized Hadrianic issues previously scattered across the old RIC II.