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Æ24 - Hadrian ΑΡΓΕΙωΝ
| Issuer | Argos (Achaea) |
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| Year | 117-138 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΡΓΕΙωΝ (Translation: of the Argives) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Argos maintained the right to strike civic bronze through much of the imperial period, a privilege extended to relatively few Peloponnesian cities. Under Hadrian, that privilege carried particular weight — he visited the Peloponnese, was initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, and cultivated Greek civic identity with unusual personal investment. Whether this issue commemorates a specific visit or simply reflects the city's ongoing autonomous coinage is unresolved; the reference corpus for Argive bronzes of this period remains incompletely die-linked.