Æ20 - Hadrian COL L IVL COR

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.