Dupondius or As - Hadrian RESTITVTORI SICILIA S C, Sicilia

The "Restitutori" series was issued during Hadrian's extensive tour of the provinces, a journey that occupied much of his reign and was unprecedented in scale for a sitting emperor. Sicily warranted inclusion not for military relevance but as a grain-producing province with deep Greek cultural roots — Hadrian was conspicuously philhellenic, and the restoration rhetoric of these coins carried ideological weight beyond the administrative. The series spans roughly a dozen provinces and client kingdoms, each receiving its own reversal type within the same emission.

Sicily-type pieces are among the scarcer provincial attributions within the Restitutori group.