Æ21 - Hadrian ΑΙΟΛΕΩΝ ΚΥΜΑΙωΝ, ΕΡΜΟϹ (in ex.)

Cyme, one of the oldest Greek settlements on the Aeolian coast, retained its civic identity under Roman rule partly through coinages like this one — struck in the joint name of both Cyme and the Hermos River, the principal waterway of the Smyrna conventus. The river's inclusion in the exergue was not decorative convention but a genuine expression of regional geography and shared civic pride among the Aeolian communities that clustered along its banks.