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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.