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Denarius - Hadrian PIETAS AVG, Pietas
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 133-135 |
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| Value | 1 Denarius |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Pietas, personification of piety and devotion, depicted facing left in long flowing robes with both arms raised in a gesture of supplication or prayer toward the heavens. To her left in the lower field stands a small lit altar, symbolizing the act of ritual worship. The composition emphasizes the emperor's devotion to traditional Roman religious values. The field is plain, and the reverse legend PIETAS AVG is inscribed in two sections flanking the figure within the beaded border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hadrian's sustained emphasis on pietas coinage in the 130s reflected a deliberate political posture: a ruler who had spent much of his reign traveling the provinces rather than campaigning needed to project devotion — to the gods, to tradition, to Rome itself — as a substitute for military gloria. The type clusters heavily in the final years before his death in 138, when illness and the turbulent succession question surrounding Aelius Caesar and then Antoninus Pius made such messaging increasingly pointed.