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Sestertius - Hadrian LOCVPLETATORI ORBIS TERRARVM S C, Liberalitas
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 120-121 |
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| Weight | 25 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Adlocutio or liberalitas scene depicting Hadrian seated left on a raised tribunal platform, his right hand extended in a gesture of beneficence toward a toga-clad citizen advancing from the right who reaches upward with both hands. Behind the emperor stands the personification of Liberalitas, facing left, emptying the contents of a cornucopia held before her. The composition conveys imperial generosity and the formal act of congiarium, consistent with the coin's commemorative legend. The senatorial authorization mark S C appears prominently in the lower field. |
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The legend LOCVPLETATORI ORBIS TERRARVM — "to the enricher of the world" — was struck to commemorate Hadrian's second imperial congiarium, a cash distribution to the Roman citizenry recorded as part of his early reign's extraordinary generosity program. Hadrian distributed at least five congiaria over his reign, an unusual frequency even by imperial standards, and this issue directly celebrates the second of them.
RIC II.3 #431 is among the types revised and renumbered in the 2007 re-editing of RIC II, making older catalog references unreliable for precise attribution.