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Æ25 - Augustus ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 1-5 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ (Translation: Augustus) |
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Alexandria's civic bronze issues under Augustus occupied an awkward administrative position — technically provincial coinage, but produced under direct imperial supervision as Egypt remained the personal property of the emperor rather than a senatorial province. No senator was permitted to enter Egypt without explicit imperial authorization, a restriction that held from Augustus through the third century.
The Greek epithet ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ — a deliberate translation of "Augustus" rather than a transliteration — was a conscious political choice, grounding imperial authority in the existing vocabulary of Greek honorifics rather than importing Latin wholesale.