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Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.27 g, 7h). Uncertain eastern mint. Struck circa AD 124-127. Laureate head right / Libertas standing left, holding pileus and vindicta. RIC II.3 2990; RSC 374 (Rome mint). Lustrous, small flan crack, light roughness. EF. Rare.
According to A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins by John Melville Jones, "Libertas", the vindicta, which Libertas carries, was "the rod with which a slave was touched during the ceremony of manumission or liberation."
According to A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins by John Melville Jones, "Libertas", the vindicta, which Libertas carries, was "the rod with which a slave was touched during the ceremony of manumission or liberation."