Æ29 - Hadrian ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΙΕΡΑΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ

Laodicea ad Lycum and Hierapolis shared not just a river valley but a persistent civic rivalry, and joint coinage issues like this one were almost certainly diplomatic gestures rather than administrative necessities — the two cities pooling honorific production under Hadrian, an emperor who visited the broader Asian province and whose philhellenism made him unusually receptive to such displays of Greek civic identity. Hadrian's tour of the eastern provinces in 129 AD brought renewed imperial attention to the Lycus valley cities.

The Conventus of Cibyra was one of the administrative districts through which Rome organized judicial and fiscal business in Asia; Laodicea served as its assize center.