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Æ35 - Hadrian ΤΟΙϹ ΑΧΑΙΟΙϹ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ
| Issuer | Corinth (Achaea) |
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| Year | 117-138 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | A ram standing in profile to the right, rendered naturalistically in high relief with finely engraved fleece indicated by vertical striae across the body and prominently curved horns. The animal stands on a ground line at centre field. The dedicatory Greek legend ΤΟΙϹ ΑΧΑΙΟΙϹ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ is distributed around the periphery of the field, partially reading to the left and partially to the right. The whole is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Mintage | ND (117-138) |
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Hadrian's philhellenism was administrative as much as sentimental — he reorganized the Panhellenic League in 131–132 AD, positioning Corinth as a key node in his vision of a unified Greek cultural sphere under Roman patronage. The inscription ΤΟΙϹ ΑΧΑΙΟΙϹ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ, meaning roughly "dedicated to the Achaeans," reflects this benefaction ideology directly: coins bearing dedicatory language of this kind were not struck for commerce but to commemorate an imperial gift or grant to the provincial community.
Corinth at this period was a Roman colony — Colonia Laus Iulia Corinthiensis — not a Greek polis in the traditional sense, making the explicitly Greek dedicatory formula here a deliberate political choice rather than a neutral administrative one.