Æ19 - Hadrian ΦΩΚΑΕΩΝ

Phocaea's coinage under Hadrian reflects the city's comfortable position within the reorganized conventus system — Smyrna served as the assize center, and Phocaean bronzes like this one would have circulated locally while Roman administrative machinery hummed overhead. The city had long since shed its archaic reputation as a founding colony of Massalia and Elea, though civic pride in that colonial past likely informed the continued use of distinctly local ethnic legends on municipal bronze.

The reference III#1943 places this within the broader SNG or RPC classification framework for Ionian civic bronze — a category where die links between ostensibly separate issues are frequently discovered on closer examination.