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Æ33 - Marcus Aurelius L Γ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 162-163 |
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| Weight | 20.82 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Alexandria, Egypt |
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Alexandria's civic bronze coinage operated on a regnal year system, and L Γ — year three — of Marcus Aurelius fell immediately after the death of Antoninus Pius in 161 AD transferred co-rule to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. The Alexandrian mint was notably quick to acknowledge the new reign, producing a substantial volume of large-module bronzes in those first years. Egypt remained under direct imperial control as a personal province of the emperor, administered by a prefect rather than a senate-appointed governor — a distinction that kept its coinage traditions deliberately separate from the Roman mainstream.