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Æ26 - Hadrian ΥΔΙϹΕωΝ, ΖΕΥϹ ΑΡΕΙΟϹ (in field, l. and r.)
| Issuer | Hydisus (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 117-138 |
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| Weight | 8.06 g |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed and laureate bust of Emperor Hadrian facing right, with draped shoulder, rendered in the provincial Greek style. The portrait displays the characteristic short beard and strong facial profile associated with Hadrianic coinage. The encircling legend runs around the bust in Greek characters. The die work reflects the typical workmanship of a Carian provincial mint of the early second century AD. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Hydisus was a minor Carian settlement whose civic identity leaned heavily on religious association with Zeus Areios — a martial epithet linking the god to Ares, unusual enough in the Greek east that it suggests a genuinely local cult rather than borrowed nomenclature. The city issued coins sparingly, and its Hadrianic bronzes are among the scarcest products of the Alabanda conventus, the Roman administrative district that grouped several small Carian communities under a single judicial circuit centered at Alabanda.