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Dupondius or As - Hadrian ROMA S C, Roma
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 137-138 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The personification of Roma stands facing left, depicted wearing an Amazon-style short tunic (exomis), holding the Palladium — a small statuette of Minerva — in her extended right hand and a long spear in her left. The figure is rendered in a dignified, static pose emblematic of imperial Roman allegorical coinage. The field carries the senatorial authority mark S C (Senatus Consultum) flanking the figure, with the legend ROMA appearing above. |
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Struck in the final year or two of Hadrian's reign, this issue belongs to a concentrated late series that scholars have long debated in terms of precise dating — RIC II.3, the 2007 revision by Carradice and Buttrey, substantially reorganized earlier attributions for this period. Hadrian's final years were consumed by the succession crisis surrounding the death of his first intended heir, Lucius Aelius Caesar, in January 138, and the emergency adoption of Antoninus Pius just months before Hadrian's own death in July of that year.
The S C authority on bronzes of this type reflects senatorial sanction over aes coinage, a convention maintained through bureaucratic habit long after the Senate had lost any practical control over monetary policy.