Æ26 - Commodus L ΚΕ

Year 25 of Commodus's reign counted from his father Marcus Aurelius's accession in 161 AD — a dating convention specific to the Alexandrian mint that could make synchronizing regnal years with Rome a genuine puzzle for later scholars. By 184–185, Commodus had already begun the ideological drift toward identifying himself with Hercules, a program that would escalate sharply in his final years and contribute directly to the senatorial conspiracy that killed him in 192.

Alexandria's bronze coinage of this period served the closed currency system of Roman Egypt, where Roman imperial coin did not freely circulate and local bronze was required for everyday transactions.