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Sestertius - Hadrian COS III P P IVSTITIA AVG S C, Justitia
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 129-130 |
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| Weight | 25 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The personification of Justitia, draped and veiled, seated left on a high-backed throne, extending a patera in her right hand and holding a long vertical sceptre in her left. The figure is rendered in classical style with flowing drapery falling over the throne. The legend surrounds the field, with the senatorial authorisation mark S C prominently displayed in the exergue below a ground line. |
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Hadrian's IVSTITIA issues belong to a broader programmatic series he deployed from around 128 onward, using coinage to personify virtues — justice, equity, clemency — in deliberate contrast to the militaristic imagery favored by Trajan. This was political messaging as much as monetary policy; Hadrian had already abandoned Trajan's eastern conquests and needed a domestic ideological framework to justify a reign built on consolidation rather than expansion.
The COS III designation fixes this to his third consulship, held from 119 but used on coin legends well into the 130s.