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AR19 - Diocletian ΙϹΙϹ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 297-299 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | The goddess Isis stands facing left in full-length draped figure, wearing a crown of feathers or a solar disc upon her head. She holds a sistrum raised in her right hand and a tall lotus-tipped sceptre in her left hand. Regnal year and mint control marks appear in the field to the left and right. The Greek inscription ΙϹΙϹ identifies the deity within the field. |
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Diocletian's Egyptian coinage of this period sits at the tail end of the Alexandrian tetradrachm tradition — a 250-year local monetary system he effectively killed with his currency reforms of 296/297 AD. His edict reorganized Egypt's previously closed currency zone into the broader imperial system, ending Alexandria's unique practice of requiring currency exchange at the border. Coins struck in these final years represent the last gasp of that autonomous tradition, minted in increasingly debased billon before the reformed nummus took over.