Æ20 - Hadrian C L I COR

Hadrian visited Corinth during his tour of Greece in 124–125 AD, a trip that deeply shaped his philhellenic building program across the province. Corinth, refounded as a Roman colony by Julius Caesar in 44 BC, occupied an awkward cultural position — Latin in administration, Greek in surroundings — and its civic bronzes from Hadrian's reign reflect that tension in their bilingual titulature. The magistrate abbreviation C L I COR identifies this as a colonial issue under the duoviri, the paired magistrates responsible for authorizing the city's bronze coinage.