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Æ12 - Hadrian L ΙΒ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 127-128 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | A sistrum depicted in the central field, an Egyptian ritual instrument closely associated with the goddess Isis and commonly featured on Alexandrian provincial coinage of the Imperial period. The sistrum is shown upright with its distinctive looped frame and crossbars. The regnal date legend appears in the field flanking the device. |
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| Mint | Alexandria |
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Year 12 of Hadrian's reign coincided with his extended tour of the eastern provinces — he visited Egypt in 130/131, but the administrative machinery of Alexandria's mint was already producing dated issues that tracked his regnal years independently of his physical presence. The Alexandrian bronze series for this period is notable for its extreme fragmentation of types and sizes, with many surviving in tiny module variants like this one that saw hard daily use in Egypt's cash economy and rarely escaped that circulation intact.