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Sestertius - Hadrian IVSTITIA AVG COS III P P S C, Justitia
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 129-130 |
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| Value | 1 Sestertius = 1/4 Denarius |
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| Reverse description | The personification of Justitia (Justice) seated left on a high-backed throne, rendered in draped robes falling in flowing folds. In her extended right hand she holds a patera, and in her left hand a long vertical sceptre. The figure conveys serene authority, a common allegorical type on Hadrianic bronze coinage. The exergue carries the senatorial authority mark S C, and the surrounding field is enclosed by a beaded border, with the legend distributed around the periphery. |
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| Mint | Rome |
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Hadrian's IVSTITIA issues belong to a deliberate propaganda campaign from the late 120s, when the emperor was reshaping his public image following the executions of four senior senators early in his reign — killings he always officially blamed on Trajan. Invoking Justitia was not subtle. The coins appeared during his third consulship, a period when he was actively courting senatorial goodwill he had never fully recovered.
RIC II.3 1218 is part of the comprehensive revision by Mairat that superseded the older RIC II numbering for Hadrian, splitting that volume and substantially reattributing pieces previously miscatalogued under adjacent types.