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Æ15 - Tiberius L Δ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 17-18 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | An eagle standing to the left, wings folded, rendered in the Hellenistic-Egyptian tradition common to Alexandrian civic coinage. The regnal date legend L Δ (year 4) appears in the field, referencing the fourth year of Tiberius's reign as calculated by the Alexandrian calendar. The eagle, a symbol of imperial authority and associated with Zeus-Jupiter, dominates the reverse field. |
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This small bronze belongs to year 4 of Tiberius's reign over Egypt, dated by the regnal year expressed in the field — the Alexandrian mint used an Egyptian dating system running from the accession of each emperor rather than Roman consular years. Egypt remained a unique administrative case under the Julio-Claudians: governed not by a senatorial proconsul but by an equestrian prefect, its coinage was kept deliberately isolated from the wider Roman monetary system and was not legal tender outside the province.