Æ26 - Hadrian ΑΡΓΕΙωΝ

Argos was among the oldest continuous minting cities in the Greek world, and its civic bronze issues under Hadrian reflect the emperor's deliberate cultivation of Greek identity — he was initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, served as archon of Athens, and positioned himself as a philhellene ruler in ways no predecessor had attempted so systematically. Provincial bronzes from Achaea during his reign were civic decisions, not imperial mandates; the city itself chose to strike and bore the cost.

The reference III#365 places this within the corpus of Achaean provincials, a series where die linkage studies have shown surprisingly small production runs for Argive issues specifically.