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Dupondius or As - Hadrian IVSTITIA AVG COS III P P S C, Justitia
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 129-130 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The personification of Justitia (Justice) is depicted seated to the left upon a throne or chair of state, her figure rendered in the classical style typical of Hadrianic imperial coinage. She extends her right hand holding a patera, and grasps a long vertical sceptre in her left hand. The exergue bears the senatorial authority mark S C (Senatus Consultum), while the surrounding legend arcs around the upper and lateral fields of the coin. |
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| Reverse lettering | IVSTITIA AVG COS III P P S C (Translation: Iustitia Augusti, Consul Tertium, Pater Patriae. Senatus Consultum. Justice of the emperor (Augustus), consul for the third time, father of the nation, Decree of the senate.) |
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Hadrian's third consulship began in 119 AD and he never held a fourth, which anchors this issue precisely within his middle reign. The IVSTITIA AVG types belong to a sustained programmatic coinage celebrating abstract virtues — Justice, Equity, Clemency — that Hadrian deployed with unusual consistency, likely tied to his sweeping legal reforms and his well-documented habit of personally hearing provincial appeals during his extensive imperial tours. The S C authorization confirms senatorial bronze, struck at Rome while Hadrian was arguably spending more time outside Italy than any emperor before him.