Æ34 - Antoninus Pius L ΙΖ

Year 17 of Antoninus Pius's reign, rendered in Egyptian reckoning as L ΙΖ, places this issue within one of the most administratively stable periods Alexandria's mint ever operated. The city's bronze coinage under Antoninus was produced in enormous volume — Egypt's grain-dependent economy ran on small transactions, and the mint was effectively a production facility as much as a monetary authority. Survival in any condition above heavily corroded is the real qualifier here; most examples spent decades in the Nile Delta's punishing soil before reaching collectors.