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Æ34 - Antoninus Pius L ΙΔ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 150-151 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of Marcus Aurelius, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, facing right and seen from the rear, with a short beard consistent with his early portraiture. The legend encircles the effigy in Greek characters, identifying the subject as Marcus Aurelius Caesar. The portrait style is characteristic of Alexandrian provincial coinage of the Antonine period, rendered with moderate relief. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Year 14 of Antoninus Pius corresponds to 150–151 AD, and Alexandrian bronzes of this regnal year are among the more systematically documented of the entire Antonine series — the Alexandrian mint dated every issue by regnal year, a practice that makes precise attribution straightforward compared to the chaos of provincial dating elsewhere. The mint was among the most prolific in the Roman East, producing a continuous stream of large-module bronzes for local Egyptian circulation, where Roman silver was rarely seen by ordinary people.
The reference IV.4#1299 places this within Emmett's corpus of Alexandrian coinage — the standard modern reference for the series.