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Sestertius - Hadrian RESTITVTORI BITHYNIAE S C, Bithynia
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 130-133 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Hadrian standing right in military attire, extending his right hand to raise a kneeling female personification of Bithynia, who holds a ship's rudder as a provincial attribute. The scene represents Hadrian's celebrated visit to the province of Bithynia during his eastern travels. The legend RESTITVTORI BITHYNIAE frames the figural group, with the senatorial authority mark S C (Senatus Consultum) placed in the field or exergue. |
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| Mint | Rome Mint |
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Hadrian's extended tour of the eastern provinces between 128 and 134 AD generated an entire series of "restitutor" coinage, each issue honoring a specific province or region he had personally visited. Bithynia, a wealthy senatorial province on the Black Sea coast, had long been troubled by municipal mismanagement — Pliny the Younger's correspondence with Trajan a generation earlier documented financial chaos in its cities at length. Hadrian's visit prompted direct administrative intervention, and the coinage followed as public acknowledgment of imperial attention.
RIC II.3 1833 is among the less frequently encountered provincials in the restitutor series.