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Æ33 - Antoninus Pius L Κ

Issuer	Alexandria (Egypt)
Year	156-157
Type	Standard circulation coin
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Obverse description	Laureate head of Antoninus Pius facing right, with traces of drapery visible at the shoulder truncation. The portrait is rendered in the typical Alexandrian provincial style, with a wreath of laurel encircling the emperor's head. The surrounding Greek legend runs along the coin's circumference. The flan is irregular and slightly convex, consistent with Alexandrian bronze coinage of this period.
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Reverse description	Cybele, the Phrygian mother goddess, seated left on a throne, veiled and draped, holding a patera in her extended right hand and resting her left arm upon a tympanum. The throne is flanked on either side by a recumbent lion, emblematic of the goddess's iconographic tradition. The regnal year date appears in the field. The composition is characteristic of Alexandrian civic religious types celebrating Eastern cults under Roman imperial patronage.
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