Dupondius or As - Hadrian COS III P P S C, Roma

Hadrian received his third consulship in 119 AD and retained the title COS III on his coinage for the remainder of his reign — making it a broad dating bracket rather than a precise anchor. The S C (Senatus Consulto) attribution on bronze reflects the formal fiction that the Senate retained authority over the aes coinage, a convention that persisted long after it ceased to reflect any real constitutional arrangement.

RIC II.3 1373 falls within the substantial reorganization of Hadrian's bronze coinage undertaken after his return from the eastern provinces, a trip that profoundly reshaped his building programs and the iconographic priorities of the mint.