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Æ34 - Antoninus Pius L ΙΔ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 150-151 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Zeus enthroned left on a high-backed throne, his body draped, extending his right hand to hold a patera and grasping a long sceptre upright in his left. An eagle stands at his feet to the left, facing right. The regnal-year date L ΙΔ (Year 14) appears in the field to the left of the figure, a hallmark of Alexandrian civic coinage used to date issues within the emperor's reign. |
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Year 14 of Antoninus Pius's reign, which this coin marks through its regnal dating, fell during one of the more administratively stable periods in Roman Egypt — a province governed with unusual bureaucratic intensity, its grain output carefully managed as the primary feed source for Rome itself. The Alexandrian mint operated on a closed currency system: Roman silver did not circulate freely in Egypt, and provincials used locally struck bronze for everyday transactions, making issues like this genuinely workhorse coinage rather than ceremonial production.