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Æ22 - Hadrian ΧΑΛΚΙΔΕΩΝ, ΗΡΑ
| Issuer | Chalcis (Achaea) |
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| Year | 117-138 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ (Translation: Caesar Hadrian) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Chalcis in Euboea struck bronze coinage under Hadrian during a period when the emperor made Greek civic identity a deliberate political project — his philhellenism was not incidental. He founded the Panhellenion in Athens around 131–132 AD, a league of Greek cities with explicit cultural and honorific functions, and provincial cities like Chalcis had clear incentive to produce civic bronzes that signaled participation in this renewed Greek prestige economy.
The Hera association is geographically apt; the Chalcidians maintained longstanding cultic ties to the goddess in Euboea.