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.
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.