Æ32 - Antoninus Pius L ΚΑ

Year 21 of Antoninus Pius's reign, which is what the regnal date L ΚΑ records, fell during one of the more administratively settled periods of the second century. Alexandria's mint operated under the prefect of Egypt — a position held by an equestrian, not a senator, reflecting Rome's deliberate exclusion of the senatorial class from a province whose grain supply made it too strategically sensitive to trust to potential rivals.