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Æ18 - Hadrian ΑΡΓΕΙωΝ
| Issuer | Argos (Achaea) |
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| Year | 117-138 |
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| Reference(s) | III#377 |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΤΙϹΤΗϹ (Translation: Emperor Hadrian the Founder) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Argos maintained one of the more stubborn civic minting traditions in the Peloponnese under Roman rule, continuing to strike bronze long after many neighboring poleis had abandoned the practice. The city's identity as the mythological home of Hera gave local authorities reason to keep producing civic coinage even as imperial portraiture became the expected obverse type — a negotiated arrangement the Romans generally tolerated across Achaea.
The reference III#377 places this within the Peloponnesian volume of the BCD collection corpus, a classification tied to auction provenance rather than a standard reference work.