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Æ35 - Antoninus Pius L ΙΖ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 153-154 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Draped bust of Zeus facing left, his head adorned with a laurel wreath, rendered in the Hellenistic-Egyptian provincial style typical of Alexandrian coinage. The bust is depicted with broad shoulders and flowing drapery, reflecting the syncretic artistic tradition of the mint. The regnal year legend L ΙΖ (Year 17) appears in the field, serving as the primary reverse inscription in lieu of a fuller legend. |
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Year 17 of Antoninus Pius's reign — the regnal year embedded in the Greek dating system used exclusively by the Alexandrian mint — corresponds to 153–154 AD, a period of notable administrative stability in Egypt under the prefect Marcus Sempronius Liberalis. Alexandria operated as a closed currency system: Roman imperial coinage did not circulate freely in Egypt, and provincials were required to exchange foreign coin at the border, making Alexandrian bronzes a deliberately isolated monetary population. The IV.4 reference places this within Dattari-Savio's exhaustive corpus of Alexandrian issues, the authoritative reckoning for this series.