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Æ17 - Hadrian ΑΙΓΑΕΩΝ ΔΕΙΦ ΟΛΥΜ
| Issuer | Aegae (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 117-138 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Sabina facing right, her hair elaborately coiled and piled atop her head above a double stephane, rendered in the formal Hadrianic court portrait style. The encircling Greek legend names her as Augusta. The portrait exhibits the characteristic elegance of imperial consort imagery on provincial bronze coinage of Asia Minor. |
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| Mintage | ND (117-138) |
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Aegae was a minor Aeolian city whose civic coinage relied heavily on its claim to host one of the more obscure regional cults of Zeus Olympios — the ΟΛΥΜ abbreviation in the legend being that assertion in abbreviated form. The city used such titles competitively, as the honorific right to call oneself a seat of Olympic cult carried real political weight in the provincial hierarchy under Rome.
Aegae's bronzes from the Hadrianic period are sparsely documented, and III#1925 remains one of the few referenced die pairings for this specific legend combination.