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Æ19 - Augustus L ΛΘ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 9-10 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Livia facing right, rendered in the Alexandrian provincial style with hair elaborately dressed and gathered at the nape. The portrait exhibits the characteristic idealised treatment of Julio-Claudian imperial women as issued by the Alexandrian mint, with drapery visible at the truncation of the bust. The field is otherwise plain and devoid of legend. |
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| Reverse description | A prominent oak wreath, tied at the base with a bow, encircles the central field in which the Regnal year date is inscribed in two lines. The wreath is rendered with carefully detailed individual leaves and acorns, a hallmark of Alexandrian civic coinage of the Augustan period. The date legend L ΛΘ (Year 39 of Augustus) is boldly struck within the wreath and clearly legible. |
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Year 40 of the Augustan era in Alexandria corresponds to 9–10 AD, placing this issue near the very end of Augustus's reign — he died in 14 AD. Egypt occupied a singular administrative position under Rome: treated as the emperor's personal property rather than a senatorial province, governed by a prefect of equestrian rank specifically to prevent any senator from controlling its grain supply and using it as leverage.
Alexandrian bronzes of this period were fiduciary tokens in a closed currency system — Roman coins did not circulate freely in Egypt, and Egyptian coins could not legally leave the province.