Æ18 - Hadrian ΑΡϹΙ, L ΙΑ

Hadrian visited Egypt in 130 AD, the only reigning emperor to do so since Augustus, and the province responded with a sustained burst of civic and imperial coinage. Alexandrian bronzes of his reign are dated by regnal year — L ΙΑ placing this piece in his eleventh year, 126/127 AD — a dating convention unique to Egypt that survived well into the Roman period precisely because the Alexandrian mint never fully abandoned its Ptolemaic administrative habits.