Æ35 - Septimius Severus ΠΡΟϹ ΟΛΥΜΠΟΝ, ΑΔΡΙΑΝΩΝ

Hadriani ad Olympum — modern Balıkesir in northwestern Turkey — was a minor Mysian city that owed its very existence to Hadrian's aggressive founding program in the early second century. The city's coins consistently invoke its proximity to Mount Olympus of Mysia, a distinction that set it apart from the dozens of other Hadrianic foundations competing for imperial attention. Severan bronzes from this mint are scarce survivors; the conventus of Adramytteum produced relatively few large-module civic issues, and the 35mm format here suggests a deliberate prestige emission rather than routine small change.