Æ33 - Commodus ΕΠ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ ΛΟΥ Α ΑΡΧ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΕΩΝ (last two letters might be retrograde)

Hadrianeia was a minor Mysian city that owed its very existence to imperial patronage — founded by Hadrian himself, probably around 123 AD, during his extensive tour of the eastern provinces. The magistrate name partially preserved in the obverse legend, Apollonios, is otherwise unattested in the civic record, making this issue one of the few physical traces of his tenure. The retrograde final letters on the reverse legend suggest a die cutter working either in haste or from an incorrectly transferred template — a not uncommon problem at small provincial mints operating without the oversight of larger metropolitan centers.