Æ29 - Septimius Severus ΑΔΡΙΑΝΩΝ ΠΡΟϹ ΟΛΥΜ

Hadriani ad Olympum — modern Balıkesir in northwestern Turkey — was a Mysian city that owed its name and foundation privileges to Hadrian, whose building program across the eastern provinces seeded dozens of such communities in the second century. Under Septimius Severus, civic bronze issues like this one were a deliberate assertion of local status within the conventus system, the Roman assize circuit that organized provincial administration. The city's double designation, identifying it as both a Hadrianic foundation and a neighbor to Mount Olympus, appears compressed into the legend itself.