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Æ21 - Septimius Severus ΑΔΡΙΑΝΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Hadrianeia (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The river god Rhyndacus personified as a reclining male figure facing left, nude to the waist, leaning with his right arm upon an overturned water urn from which water flows. He holds a reed in his right hand and a cornucopia in his left, standard attributes of river deity iconography in Mysian provincial coinage. The ethnic legend of the city of Hadrianeia is inscribed around the reverse field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΔΡΙΑΝΕΩΝ |
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Hadrianeia was a minor Mysian city whose civic coinage under Septimius Severus reflects the broader scramble among small Asian poleis to align themselves publicly with the new dynasty following the civil wars of 193–197. The city's name — derived from Hadrian, who either founded or substantially refounded it in the early second century — gave it a certain institutional prestige that its modest size did not otherwise warrant.
Its bronzes circulated strictly within the local economy of the Adramyteum conventus, the Roman judicial district that grouped it administratively with larger neighbors.