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Æ37 - Antoninus Pius L Η
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 144-145 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped and cuirassed laureate bust of Antoninus Pius facing right, seen from the rear, with the paludamentum (military cloak) visible over the left shoulder. The emperor's head is crowned with a laurel wreath, rendered in the characteristic Antonine portraiture style. The encircling Greek legend names the emperor with his full titulature. The bust is rendered in the provincial Egyptian style typical of Alexandrian bronzes of the mid-second century AD. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Year 8 of Antoninus Pius in Alexandria — rendered as L Η — corresponds to 144/145 AD, a period of uncharacteristic stability in Roman Egypt. The Alexandrian mint produced dated bronze in annual series, making regnal year attribution unusually precise for provincial coinage. At 37mm this falls among the larger nominals of the Egyptian bronze sequence, a size range the Alexandrian mint reserved for the more ambitious reverse types of any given year.