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| Emittent | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Jahr | 153-154 |
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| Material | Bronze |
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| Aversschrift | Greek |
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| Reversbeschreibung | Nilus, the personification of the Nile River, reclining left upon rocky ground, his mature bearded figure nude to the waist and draped below. He holds a tall reed in his right hand and a cornucopia in his left, from which issues a small Genius holding a wreath. A crocodile is depicted beside him, emblematic of the Nile. Multiple small Genii are distributed around the composition in the field, a hallmark motif of Alexandrian coinage referencing the annual Nile flood and its abundance. |
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Year 17 of Antoninus Pius's reign, which is what the L ΙΖ notation records, fell during a period of unusual administrative stability in Roman Egypt — no flood failures, no significant revolt, no coinage interruption. Alexandria's mint operated under direct imperial supervision through the prefect, making it functionally distinct from every other provincial mint in the empire; Egypt was personal property of the emperor, not a senatorial province, and its coinage was deliberately kept inconvertible with Roman currency to control bullion flow out of the Nile valley.