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Æ25 - Augustus ΕΥΘΗΝΙΑ, L Μ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 10-11 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Livia facing right, her hair elaborately waved and gathered at the nape in the distinctive Augustan court style. The portrait is rendered in the idealized Hellenistic tradition characteristic of Alexandrian provincial coinage, with fine facial features and a graceful neckline. No legend appears on the obverse field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Struck in regnal year 20 of Augustus (10–11 AD), this Alexandria bronze belongs to a series invoking Euthenia, the personification of abundance and prosperity associated specifically with the Nile's annual flood cycle. The Ptolemaic tradition of tying civic coinage to agricultural fertility carried directly into Roman provincial practice at Alexandria, where the mint continued operating under Roman administration with remarkably little disruption to its iconographic vocabulary.
The L Μ date formula — using the Egyptian regnal year convention rather than Roman dating — reflects Alexandria's administrative distinctiveness under the early empire.