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Dupondius or As - Sabina // VESTA S C, Vesta
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 133-135 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | // VESTA S C (Translation: Vesta. Senatus Consultum. Vesta. Decree of the senate.) |
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Sabina, wife of Hadrian, received her consecration coinage posthumously around 136–137 AD, but these lifetime bronzes predate that — struck when the imperial marriage was, by most ancient accounts, genuinely miserable. Hadrian reportedly found Sabina tedious and she him intolerable; Suetonius' successor historians preserved enough gossip to confirm the relationship was largely political theater by this period. The Vesta reverse on Sabina's coinage was a deliberate ideological pairing, casting the empress as guardian of the Roman hearth at a moment when her domestic role was entirely ceremonial.