Dear cf,
Here we have a special coin, minted for mines in
MoesiaReference.
RIC 999;
Strack 455a;
Woytek 2004
Bust A1
Obv. HADRIANVS
AVGVSTVS P P
Laureate
headRev. AELIANA / • / PINCEN / SIA
within
wreath4.17 gr
18 mm
6h
Note.
Translation:
Aeliana Princensia
Games in honour of
Aelius Hadrianus (Aeliana) in Pincum.
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-168713AELIANA PINCENSIA. - Within a garland of laurel. - This
legend on a second and
third brass of
Hadrian, has been supposed by Fröelich and others to indicate certain public games celebrated at Pincum, in
Moesia, to the honour of
Aelius Hadrian. But
Eckhel (vi. p. 445) regards it as one of the
numi metallorum, or coins of the mines, which are found inscribed with the name of
Trajan and of
Hadrian. By supplying the omission of the word metallum, he considers the meaning to be clearly indicated: METALLA
AELIA PINCENSIA. That is to say, Aeliana, (so called, from its institutor,
Aelius Hadrianus) and
Pincensia from Pincum, near which city [on the Danube, in the neighbourhood of what is now the town of Gradisea] these mines, or metalla were worked.