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Æ34 - Antoninus Pius L ΕΝΑΤΟΥ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 145-146 |
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| Weight | 22.61 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΕΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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The regnal year designation L ΕΝΑΤΟΥ — "year nine" — places this piece firmly in 145/146 AD, a period of administrative stability in Roman Egypt unusual enough to be almost unremarkable. Antoninus Pius never visited Egypt; no emperor between Augustus and Diocletian did. The province was governed as a personal imperial estate, its mint at Alexandria answering directly to the emperor's financial secretariat rather than the Senate, which is why Alexandrian bronzes carry regnal years at all — a dating convention inherited from Ptolemaic practice and retained by Rome precisely because it suited tight fiscal accounting of grain tribute.