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Æ32 - Severus Alexander L Ι
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 230-231 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Draped bust of Sarapis facing right, wearing the distinctive kalathos (modius or basket crown) atop his head, with long wavy hair and beard rendered in the Hellenistic tradition characteristic of Alexandrian coinage. A palm branch is depicted in front of the bust. To the left field, the regnal year date L Ι (year 10) is inscribed. The reverse field is otherwise plain, with no exergual line. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Year 10 of Severus Alexander's reign, which is what the regnal dating on this Alexandria bronze records. The Alexandrian mint operated under Roman imperial authority but maintained its own dating system tied to the Egyptian calendar — a administrative holdover from the Ptolemaic period that Rome never bothered to dismantle. By 230 AD, Severus Alexander was increasingly preoccupied with the resurgent Sasanian threat on the eastern frontier, a campaign that would eventually draw him away from Rome entirely and expose the weakness that led to his murder by his own troops in 235 AD.