Æ29 - Severus Alexander ΕΠΙ ΙΠΠΟΝΕΙΚΟΥ ΑΡΧ ΤΟ Β ΑΔΡΙΑΝΕΩΝ

Hadrianeia was a Mysian city founded — and named — by Hadrian himself, likely during his extensive tour of the eastern provinces around 123 AD, making it one of the few cities in the empire that owed its very existence to a reigning emperor's personal initiative. The magistrate named in the obverse legend, Hipponikos, held the archonship for a second term (ΤΟ Β), a detail that occasionally allows scholars to sequence the city's civic bronze issues across Alexander Severus's reign. Provincial bronzes from Hadrianeia are thinly represented in major collections, and the conventus of Adramyteum generally produced lower volumes than the more commercially active centers to the south.