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AR18 - Diocletian L ΕΝΑΤΟΥ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 293-294 |
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| Weight | 7.09 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Homonoia, the personification of concord, stands facing left in flowing robes, extending her right arm in a gesture of greeting and cradling a double cornucopia in her left arm. A star appears in the field to the left or right, serving as a mint control mark. The regnal date legend L ΕΝΑΤΟΥ (Year 9) is inscribed in the field, consistent with the ninth year of Diocletian's reign in the Alexandrian dating system. A beaded border surrounds the reverse design. |
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Year nine of Diocletian's reign in the Alexandrian regnal calendar corresponds to 292–293 AD, immediately preceding the establishment of the Tetrarchy in 293. Alexandria's mint was among the most prolific provincial operations in the empire, and its billon coinage had been subject to relentless debasement across the third century — by Diocletian's accession, the silver content was negligible. His subsequent currency reform of 294, the same year this type ceases, attempted to stabilize the system empire-wide, rendering this issue one of the last products of the old Alexandrian monetary regime before the reform suppressed it entirely.