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Æ34 - Antoninus Pius L ΤΡΙϹΚΑΙΔΕ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 149-150 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | The Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux), each crowned with a radiate star, depicted on horseback riding towards one another in mirror-facing composition. Between the two mounted figures stands a thymiaterion (incense altar or censer), serving as the central decorative element of the reverse field. The date legend appears in the field, recording the regnal year in the Alexandrian dating system. This reverse type reflects the syncretistic religious iconography characteristic of Roman Egypt's provincial coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | L ΤΡΙϹΚΑΙΔΕ (Translation: of the 13th year) |
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Year 14 of Antoninus Pius — the regnal year encoded in the Greek ΤΡΙΣΚΑΙΔΕ obverse legend — places this strike at a moment of relative administrative calm in Egypt, the empire's most tightly controlled province. The prefect answered directly to the emperor, not the Senate, and Alexandria's mint operated accordingly: a closed monetary system in which Roman-standard coinage was exchanged at the border and Egyptian provincials circulated exclusively within Egypt's borders.
The large module of this piece was not vanity — it matched specific weight targets within Alexandria's debased bronze hierarchy, distinct from the Roman æs system entirely.