Æ24 - Hadrianus ΤΥΑΝΕΩΝ ΤΗC ΙΕΡΑC ΑCΥΛΟΥ ΑΥΤΟΝΟΜΟΥ, Tyana

Tyana's civic coinage under Hadrian reflects the city's aggressive pursuit of honorific titles in the early second century. The triple designation — ἱερᾶς, ἀσύλου, αὐτονόμου — was not decorative. Each title had to be petitioned from Rome, and Tyana appears to have secured all three in rapid succession around Hadrian's accession, likely capitalizing on the goodwill generated by a new emperor eager to present himself as a philhellene benefactor of eastern cities.

Tyana held special prestige as the birthplace of Apollonius, the Neopythagorean philosopher whose cult remained active well into the imperial period.