Tiny Alexandria chalkous, but which Emperor?

Roman Provincial coins come large and small. Two coins came in today, a large from Tarsus and a small from Alexandria. The Tarsus coin is one of my largest with 37 mm, but the Alexandria chalkous without any doubt is the smallest. And it's not so easy for me to make a picture of either. But here they are together - on a napkin.



The large is clear enough: Gordian III of Tarsus. But the Alexandria coin, can you help me? The diameter is only 8 mm, weight 0.61 gr. Is this a chalkous, a 1 copperpiece coin? And whose head is on it?



The reverse is relatively clear. You see three corn ears bound together with the regnal year L IΔ = 14.

The obverse shows a bearded emperor, so: Hadrian, Antoninus Pius or Marcus Aurelius were the only ones with long enough reigns. Hadrian looks different somehow. Searching on various websites, I didn't find anything really like it. Nothing in Emmett either, one of the few Alexandria catalogues I have.

Probably I should be searching more systematically. But I don't know how. Can you help?

 

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RPC is the best guide for these. It's Hadrian, RPC 5766. The advanced search is very powerful for identifying things if you master how to use it. It's also neat that you can contribute data and corrections very easily!

 

Thanks @SeptimusT, it must be, because no other coins are mentioned in this direction. Only the head doesn't have the style of Hadrian in my opinion. And the weight is so light... much less even than the lightest of the eleven small bronzes on the RPC website. However, I now find it in Emmett with the number 1176.14 (with rarity 5), and none under Marcus or Antoninus.

Naturally, I often use RPC. But advanced search gave me next to nothing. Only 'Hadrian' plus the year in Greek yields RPC 5766. All the other data of the coin give zero results: coin ears, weight, metal, size, region, laureate bust & c.

By the way, I also found the large Provincial of Gordian on RPC, so exactly that it's almost a double die match: ID 3243 specimen 2.