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Æ19 - Hadrian ΜΥΡΙΝΑΙ

Issuer Myrina (Conventus of Smyrna)
Year 117-138
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Composition Bronze
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Obverse script Greek
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Edge Plain
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Myrina, a coastal Aeolian city with a Greek foundation mythology tied to an Amazon queen of the same name, issued bronze coinage sporadically under Roman provincial administration — this piece falling within Hadrian's reign, a period when the emperor's well-documented philhellenism actively encouraged civic pride and local minting across the Greek east. Hadrian visited the region during his tours of Asia Minor, and imperial attention of that kind often prompted renewed civic coinage as a form of municipal self-presentation to the emperor's entourage.

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