Æ19 - Septimius Severus ΑΔΡΙΑΝΕΩΝ

Hadrianeia was a minor Mysian city that owed its very existence to Hadrian's refoundation program of the early second century — one of dozens of communities across Asia Minor that adopted imperial names to signal loyalty and attract benefaction. Under Septimius Severus, provincial mints like this one resumed bronze production largely to fund local civic functions, the imperial treasury having little interest in supervising small Æ issues at this scale. The ethnic legend ΑΔΡΙΑΝΕΩΝ confirms civic rather than koinon authorization.