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Denarius - Hadrian P M TR P COS II IVSTITIA, Justitia
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 117 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | The personification of Justitia (Justice) seated left on a high-backed throne, draped in long robes falling in deep folds. She extends her right hand forward holding a patera, while her left hand grasps a long vertical sceptre. The legend surrounds the figure, with IVSTITIA inscribed in the exergue beneath the throne. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Struck in 117 AD, the first year of Hadrian's reign, this issue belongs to a concentrated burst of types advertising the ideological program of the new emperor. Hadrian moved quickly to distance himself from Trajan's expansionist policies — abandoning newly conquered Mesopotamia almost immediately — and coins invoking Justitia were part of a calculated campaign to frame retrenchment as righteous governance rather than retreat.
RIC II.3 #117 falls within the earliest consular dating of Hadrian's reign, COS II placing it before 118 AD.