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Æ27 - Hadrian Ε ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ ΑΡΧ ΤΟ Β ΜΑΙΟΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Maeonia (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 117-138 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and cuirassed bust of Emperor Hadrian facing right, depicted with characteristic short beard and curled hair beneath the laurel wreath. The muscled cuirass is visible at the shoulder and chest, with a paludamentum draped over the left shoulder. The Greek imperial legend surrounds the effigy in the field. The style is typical of provincial bronze coinage struck under the Conventus of Sardis during Hadrian's reign. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Maeonia was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under Hadrian reflects a broader pattern of Greek poleis leveraging imperial favor to assert local identity through bronze issues. The magistrate name recorded in the legend — Apollonios, serving his second term as archon — is one of the few mechanisms by which individual provincial administrators survive in the historical record at all. Roman Lydia left almost no literary documentation of its civic officeholders; the coins are the archive.