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Æ24 - Hadrian ΑΙΛΙ ΠΟΛΥΑΙ ΑΡΧ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Hadriani ad Olympum (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 117-138 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Emperor Hadrian facing right, with short beard rendered in fine curls, consistent with the emperor's characteristic portraiture. The effigy is depicted in a slightly heroic manner with paludamentum visible at the shoulder. The Greek legend ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ runs around the periphery of the flan. The style of engraving is typical of provincial bronze coinage struck in the Mysian conventus under Hadrian. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ (Translation: Hadrian Augustus) |
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Hadriani ad Olympum was a city Hadrian founded — or substantially refounded — in the Mysian interior, near Mount Olympus in Bithynia, and this coin is among the earliest municipal bronze issues from a community that effectively owed its civic identity to the emperor whose name it bore. The city fell within the conventus of Adramyteum, one of the administrative assize districts Rome used to organize judicial and fiscal business across Asia Minor. That a newly established city was producing its own bronze coinage so promptly reflects the speed with which Hadrian's foundations acquired the institutional apparatus of Greek civic life.