Dupondius or As - Hadrian IVSTITIA AVG COS III P P S C, Justitia

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.