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Æ26 - Hadrian COL L IVL COR
| Issuer | Corinth (Achaea) |
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| Year | 128-138 |
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| Diameter | 26 mm |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | COL L IVL COR (Translation: colony of Laus Iulia of the Corinthians) |
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Hadrian visited Corinth at least twice — once during his first eastern tour around 124–125 AD and again circa 128–129 — and the city, refounded as a Roman colony by Julius Caesar in 44 BC, responded with a sustained series of civic bronzes honoring the emperor. The colonial title COL L IVL COR encoded that Caesarian origin directly into the coin's legend, a point of civic identity Corinthians seem to have been unwilling to let lapse even under a philhellenic emperor who lavished attention on Athens instead.