Æ14 - Antoninus Pius L Α

Antoninus Pius assumed power in July 138 AD following Hadrian's death, and Alexandria's mint moved quickly — this issue belongs to his very first regnal year, Year 1 by the Alexandrian calendar. Egyptian civic bronzes of this size and period were workhorses of small transactions in a province Rome administered with unusual bureaucratic intensity, its grain surplus too strategically vital to leave local monetary supply to chance.