Æ24 - Augustus L ΜΑ

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.