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| Issuer | Hadriani ad Olympum (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 117-138 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and cuirassed bust of Hadrian facing right, with paludamentum draped over the left shoulder, the cloak visible from the rear. The imperial effigy is rendered in the conventional provincial portrait style of the Hadrianic period. The obverse legend encircles the bust in Greek characters, reading ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ, identifying the emperor as Caesar Trajan Hadrian. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Hadriani ad Olympum was a city Hadrian founded — or substantially refounded — in the region of Mysia near Mount Olympus, one of several Hadrianic foundations in Asia Minor that bore his name. The city's coinage, issued under the conventus of Adramyteum, is rare precisely because the city itself was short-lived as an administrative center, likely absorbed into broader provincial organization before it could accumulate a substantial minting record. The epithet ΠΡΟΟΛΥΝΠ — referring to its position at the foot of the Mysian Olympus — distinguishes it from the other Hadrianic namesake cities, a necessary disambiguation even in antiquity.