PHOENICIA, Ace-Ptolemais. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ (23mm, 10.38 g, 12h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Claudius driving yoke of oxen right, plowing pomerium; in background, four standards inscribed III, VI, X, and XII. Kadman, Akko 101-3; RPC III 3912; Rosenberger 48; Sofaer 137-138. Black patina with red earthen highlights, slight roughness. Good Fine.
RPC notes the founder on the reverse is Claudius who settled veterans of his legions in the city as well as in the neighboring cities of Berytus, Aelia Capitolina, and Caesarea Maritima. This is alluded to by the banners behind the oxen, each representing the legions retiring there.