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Æ35 - Antoninus Pius L Ϛ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 142-143 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse lettering | L Ϛ (Translation: of year 6) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Year 6 of Antoninus Pius's reign corresponds to 142–143 AD, when Alexandria's imperial mint was producing large bronzes at significant volume to supply Egypt's monetized economy — a province that maintained its own closed currency system, forcing all incoming coinage to be exchanged at the border. The "L Ϛ" regnal date formula is distinctively Alexandrian, a papyrological convention applied to coinage found nowhere else in the Roman provincial series.
At 35mm, these fall among the largest Alexandrian bronzes regularly issued, sometimes called drachms in modern references though the ancient denomination terminology remains contested.