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Æ24 - Augustus L ΜΑ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 11-12 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse lettering | L ΜΑ (Translation: of year 41) |
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| Mintage | ND (11-12) |
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Alexandria's civic bronze issues under Augustus were governed by a regnal year system tied not to Roman consular dates but to the Egyptian calendar, making year L ΜΑ — year 41 of Augustus's reign — one of the later emissions in a long provincial sequence that continued until his death in AD 14. Egypt was administered as a personal imperial province, off-limits to senators, its grain surplus too strategically critical to risk senatorial interference. Provincial bronze circulated locally and was never legal tender outside Egypt.