Æ33 - Marcus Aurelius L Γ

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.