Æ19 - Hadrian ΑΝΚΥΡΑΝΩΝ

Ancyra in Phrygia — distinct from the more famous Ancyra in Galatia — operated under the Roman conventus system, which grouped provincial cities into judicial districts for administrative convenience. This piece falls under the Sardis conventus, reflecting the commercial and legal gravity that Sardis exercised over western Anatolian cities well into the imperial period. Hadrian visited Asia Minor during his extensive provincial tours of 123–124 AD, and civic bronze issues proliferated across the region in the years surrounding his travels, many struck as expressions of local loyalty rather than economic necessity.