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Denarius - Hadrian PIETAS AVG, Pietas
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 133-135 |
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| Value | 1 Denarius |
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| Reverse description | The personification of Pietas stands facing left in long flowing robes, her arms raised and both hands extended outward in a gesture of prayer or supplication. A small altar is positioned to her left in the field. The figure is rendered in a graceful contrapposto stance with careful drapery detail typical of Hadrianic imperial coinage. The reverse legend PIETAS AVG is distributed in the field to either side of the figure, framed by a beaded border. |
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| Reverse lettering | PIETAS AVG (Translation: Pietas Augusti. Piety of the Emperor.) |
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Struck in the final years of Hadrian's reign, this issue belongs to a concentrated burst of "travel series" coinage produced after the emperor's extensive provincial tours — coins that systematically honored Roman religious and civic virtues as part of a deliberate program of ideological consolidation. Pietas, invoked here, carried specific political weight for Hadrian: his own succession had been contested, and the pietas theme reinforced both his filial obligations to Trajan's memory and the legitimate chain of adoption running toward Antoninus Pius, whom Hadrian designated successor in 136 AD.