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Æ34 - Antoninus Pius L Δ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 140-141 |
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| Diameter | 34 mm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped bust of Antoninus Pius facing right, rendered in the Alexandrian provincial style with characteristic broad shoulders and softly modelled features. The emperor wears a laurel wreath and a paludamentum visible at the truncation. The Greek imperial titulature runs around the periphery of the flan, partially obscured by the irregular flan edge. The portrait displays the mature, bearded effigy of the emperor consistent with his coinage struck during the fourth regnal year of his reign. |
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| Reverse description | Nilus, the personification of the River Nile, seated left upon rocks, his body turned slightly toward the viewer. The deity holds a tall reed in his right hand and a large cornucopia in his left arm. A crocodile, the sacred animal of the Nile, climbs up the rocky outcrop toward the figure, rendered in profile facing left. The composition is a standard Alexandrian type celebrating the fertility and abundance conferred by the annual Nile inundation, with the regnal year date in the field. |
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| Mint | Alexandria |
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