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Æ22 - Hadrian COL L IVL COR
| Issuer | Roman Provincial Mint of Corinth (Achaea) |
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| Year | 128-138 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse lettering | COL L IVL COR (Translation: colony of Laus Iulia of the Corinthians) |
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| Mintage | ND (128-138) |
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Corinth's status as a Roman colony — refounded by Julius Caesar in 44 BC after lying desolate for a century following Mummius's destruction in 146 BC — gave its civic coinage a particular political charge. By Hadrian's reign the city had become one of the wealthiest ports in the eastern Mediterranean, and the COL L IVL COR legend on its bronzes was a deliberate assertion of Latin colonial identity within a thoroughly Hellenized province. Hadrian visited Corinth personally, likely in 124-125 AD during his first eastern tour.