Hadrian. 117-138 AD. Tridrachm, 9.66g. Cilicia, Aegeae, 117 AD. Obv: AVTOKPA KAICAP TPAIA ADRIANOC, laureate head right. Rev: ETOYC GER AIGEAIWN, diademed head of Alexander III right, goat below. Unique, the only recorded silver coin of Aegeae's Year 163. F. Haymann, Hadrian und Aigeai: ein neues Tridrachmon, Gephyra 4, 2008, pp. 1-8 (this coin). VF. Ex Lanz 141, 26 May 2008, lot 426. The earliest recorded Aegeaean provincial silver coin, struck between Hadrian's accession on 11 August 117 and the end of Aegeae's Year 163 in Autumn 117. Previously, Aegeae apparently had two issues of AR coins under Hadrian, the first from year 164 of the local era (117/8 AD, 31 tetradrachms and 61 tridrachms listed), and the second in 176-180, =129/30-133/4 AD, mainly tetradrachms with a few tridrachms: (Lorber and Michaels, "Silver Coinage of Aegeae in the Reign of Hadrian", Quaderni Ticinese XXXVI, 2007, pp. 205-43). Gemini Numismatic Auction #6, January 10, 2010, lot 615