Æ19 - Hadrian COL L IVL COR

Hadrian visited Corinth during his Greek tour of 124–125 AD and again around 128–129 AD, and the city — rebuilt by Julius Caesar as a Roman colony in 44 BC after lying depopulated for a full century — responded with a burst of civic bronze coinage celebrating the relationship. The colonial title COL L IVL COR encoded in the legend reflects Caesar's original foundation, a piece of institutional memory the Corinthians carried on their coinage for nearly two hundred years after refoundation.