Æ25 - Hadrian ΕΠΙΜΕΛΗΘΕΙϹΗϹ ΠΕΔΙΑϹ ϹΕΚΟΥΝΔΗϹ

Eucarpia was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage under Hadrian reflects a broader pattern of provincial self-promotion during his reign — a period when the emperor's extensive tours through the eastern provinces encouraged local communities to assert their identities through bronze issues. The magistrate name preserved in the legend, Pedia Secunda, is one of the very few epigraphic attestations of a woman holding civic administrative responsibility in the conventus of Apamea, making this piece a rare documentary artifact as much as a coin.