Æ27 - Hadrian COR

Corinth's early Hadrianic bronzes occupy a narrow window: the city was still recalibrating its civic identity following Trajan's death in August 117, and the new emperor's philhellenic reputation made Greek provincial mints unusually eager to demonstrate loyalty through rapid issue. Corinth, refounded as a Roman colony by Caesar in 44 BC, maintained a complicated dual identity — Latin in administration, Greek in everything else — and its provincial coinage reflects that tension throughout the Hadrianic period.

The III#117 reference places this among the earlier attributions in the Corinth series, struck before Hadrian's first Greek tour of 124–125 AD reshaped how the city presented itself numismatically.