Æ28 - Marcus Aurelius C L I COR

Corinth's provincial bronze coinage under Marcus Aurelius was issued by a city still carrying the administrative weight of its Roman colonial refounding — Julius Caesar established Colonia Laus Iulia Corinthiensis in 44 BC on the ruins of the Greek city Lucius Mummius had razed a century earlier. The abbreviation C L I COR in the reference encodes that colonial identity directly: it had outlasted two centuries of Roman rule and was still how the city identified itself on coin.

Provincial issues of this diameter from Achaea rarely circulated far beyond the Peloponnese.