Æ19 - Antoninus Pius L ΕΝΑΤΟΥ

Year nine of Antoninus Pius's reign — the regnal year encoded in the Greek legend — places this issue squarely in the middle of his unusually stable and uneventful principate. Alexandria's civic bronze coinage operated under the prefect of Egypt, entirely separate from the Roman imperial mint system, with denominations and types set locally rather than in Rome. The workshop produced a remarkable volume of small bronzes in this period, many of which circulated heavily in the Nile Delta and into Upper Egypt.