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Æ20 - Hadrian COL L IVL COR
| Issuer | Corinth (Achaea) |
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| Year | 128-137 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Empress Sabina facing left, her hair elaborately coiled and piled high upon the crown of the head above a triple stephane. The portrait reflects the formal Imperial style of the Hadrianic period. The encircling legend identifies the empress by her Imperial title. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Hadrian visited Corinth during his tour of Greece in 124–125 AD, and again around 128–129 AD — the city received substantial imperial patronage as a result. These provincial bronzes were struck under his authority by the Roman colony that Julius Caesar had refounded on the razed site of the old Greek city in 44 BC, nearly a century after Lucius Mummius had leveled it. The colonial title COL L IVL COR encodes that entire history in four words.