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Æ33 - Antoninus Pius L ΙΖ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 153-154 |
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| Weight | 25.73 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | A monumental altar or flat-roofed tetrastyle or hexastyle temple depicted frontally, its entablature decorated with garlands suspended between the columns; barriers or lattice-work are indicated between the column shafts. An uncertain standing figure is placed at each end of the stepped base. Above the roofline, a funeral pyre is depicted, surmounted by acroteria in the form of aphlasta (naval trophy ornaments). The composition is characteristic of Alexandrian coinage commemorating imperial cult architecture. |
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Regnal year 17 of Antoninus Pius places this issue squarely within the most administratively stable decades of the entire Roman imperial period — a reign so uneventful by Roman standards that the Historia Augusta struggled to fill his biography. Alexandrian bronze production under Pius was prolific, the mint working through a long series of reverses tied to the Egyptian religious calendar and Nilotic iconography, making die matching against the Dattari and Emmett corpora the primary tool for precise attribution.
The L ΙΖ date formula — the Egyptian regnal year rendered in Greek — is the standard Alexandrian dating convention, running from the anniversary of accession rather than the Roman calendar year.