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Æ14 - Hadrian ΦΘΕΜΦ, L ΙΑ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 117-138 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Emperor Hadrian facing right, with drapery visible on the left shoulder. The portrait is rendered in the characteristic Alexandrian provincial style, with curled hair beneath the laurel wreath. The flan is irregular and the surfaces show heavy wear consistent with circulation, with no visible legend on this obverse. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The regnal year marker L ΙΑ places this piece in Hadrian's eleventh year, 126/127 AD — the period immediately following his first great tour of the eastern provinces, during which he visited Egypt personally in 130 AD. The Alexandrian mint maintained its own dating system independent of Rome, a practice rooted in the Ptolemaic administrative tradition that Augustus preserved when he made Egypt an imperial province directly answerable to the emperor rather than the Senate.
At 14mm and under 2 grams, this falls among the smallest denominations the Alexandrian bronze series produced.