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Æ19 - Hadrian ΔΕΛΦΩΝ
| Issuer | Delphi (Achaea) |
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| Year | 117-138 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΔΕΛΦΩΝ (Translation: of the Delphians) |
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Delphi's civic bronze coinage under Hadrian reflects the emperor's unusually close relationship with the sanctuary — he visited the oracle twice and served as an archon of the Amphictyonic League, the federal body that administered the sanctuary and its games. The city's right to strike bronze in this period was inseparable from that institutional connection.
The reference III#432 places this among the scarcer documented Delphic bronzes; the city's output was never large, and surviving specimens tend to come from the same handful of old collections.