Assarion - Hadrian ΥΡΚΑΝΩΝ ΑΝΘ ΚΥΙΗΤΩ

Hyrcanis was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage depended almost entirely on the presence of a Roman magistrate willing to lend his name to the issue. The inscription ΑΝΘΥΠΑΤΩ ΚΥΙΗΤΩ identifies the proconsul Quintus Pompeius Falco — suffect consul under Trajan and later governor of Britain — who held the Asian proconsulship precisely during Hadrian's tour of the eastern provinces in 125–126. The coin exists because Hadrian was nearby, and local cities seized on imperial visits to assert civic prestige through bronze issues tied to the highest available Roman authority.