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Æ33 - Antoninus Pius L Η

Issuer Alexandria (Egypt)
Year 144-145
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Technique Hammered
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Obverse script Greek
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Mintage ND (144-145)
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Year 8 of Antoninus Pius's reign, which this coin's regnal date L Η confirms, fell during one of the more administratively stable periods in Roman Egypt — the prefecture humming along, the Nile flood cycles cooperative. Alexandria's mint was prolific under Pius, and the sheer volume of bronzes produced across his regnal years means individual issues are rarely scarce, though attrition from circulation in Egypt's humid Delta environment has thinned the supply of problem-free survivors considerably.

The IV.4#746 reference places this within Dattari-Savio's updated corpus — the definitive reckoning for Alexandrian bronzes of this period.

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