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Denarius - Sabina IVNONI REGINAE, Juno
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 133-135 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | SABINA AVGVSTA (Translation: Sabina Augusta. [Vibia] Sabina, the venerable.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Sabina's coinage is politically telling. Her husband Hadrian was notoriously indifferent to her — ancient sources, including the Historia Augusta, suggest he considered divorcing her and was openly contemptuous in private — yet the imperial mint produced a sustained series of issues in her name throughout the 130s, projecting dynastic stability and conjugal harmony the marriage plainly lacked. The Juno Regina type fits squarely into that program, associating the empress with the queen of the gods at a moment when the fiction of imperial harmony needed maintaining.