Æ22 - Antoninus Pius ΗΜΙΟΒΕΛΙΝ (ΛΙΝ retrograde and in exergue)

Aegium was one of the twelve cities of the Achaean League, and its civic bronze issues under Antoninus Pius reflect the modest but persistent autonomy Rome permitted to Greek communities in matters of local coinage. The hemiobol denomination and the partially retrograde legend — ΛΙΝ inverted and continued in the exergue — suggest either a lapsing of quality control at the local workshop or a deliberate spatial solution to a cramped flan, a problem endemic to smaller civic bronzes of the period.