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Æ14 - Antoninus Pius L (?)
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 144-145 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse lettering | L Η(?) (Translation: of year 8) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Year 8 of Antoninus Pius — 144/145 AD — falls squarely within Egypt's most administratively settled period under Roman rule, when the Alexandrian mint was producing an extraordinary range of small bronze denominations for local circulation. These tiny bronzes never left Egypt; the province ran a closed currency system that required all incoming coinage to be exchanged at the border, making Alexandrian issues effectively invisible to the broader Roman monetary economy.
The "L" in the designation denotes the regnal year marker used in Alexandrian dating — a ligature derived from the Demotic symbol for "year," retained through centuries of Greek and then Roman administration.