Æ34 - Antoninus Pius L Η

Year 8 of Antoninus Pius's reign, which this coin's regnal date L Η records, fell during one of the most administratively stable periods Roman Egypt had seen in generations. Alexandria's mint was producing heavily during these years, supplying bronze for a province that ran on a closed currency system — no foreign coinage was legal tender, and all coins entering Egypt were reminted at the border.

The IV.4#797 reference places this within Dattari-Savio's corpus, the foundational catalog for Alexandrian bronzes, where the Æ34 module for this year is documented but far from plentiful in well-provenanced collections.