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Dupondius or As - Sabina PIETAS S C, Pietas
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 130-133 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The personification of Pietas seated left upon a throne or chair, wearing draped robes, extending her right hand holding a patera and grasping a long sceptre in her left hand. The figure is rendered in a dignified, classicising style typical of Hadrianic allegorical reverse types. The senatorial authorisation mark S C appears in the lower exergual field, with the legend PIETAS distributed in the surrounding field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sabina, wife of Hadrian, received little genuine imperial favor during her lifetime — ancient sources suggest the marriage was miserable, and Hadrian reportedly remarked he would have divorced her were he a private citizen. Her coinage, including this issue, was nevertheless produced in considerable volume, largely as a matter of dynastic propaganda rather than personal commemoration. The PIETAS type belongs to a broader program of virtue-series bronzes issued under Hadrian celebrating idealized qualities associated with the imperial family.
Sabina was deified shortly after her death, probably in 136 or 137 AD, under circumstances that generated ancient rumors of poisoning on Hadrian's orders.