Æ24 - Antoninus Pius L Β

This piece dates to year two of Antoninus Pius's reign, the regnal year confirmed by the L Β (year 2) designation used in Alexandrian dating — a system tied to the Egyptian calendar rather than the Roman consular year. Alexandria's mint under the early Antonines was extraordinarily prolific, producing a vast range of bronze denominations for local circulation only; none of it was legal tender outside Egypt. The province functioned as a closed monetary system, a deliberate Ptolemaic inheritance the Romans maintained without modification.

Antoninus Pius never visited Egypt.