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AR19 - Diocletian L Α
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 292-293 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Obverse lettering | ΦΛΑ ΚωϹΤΑΝΤΙΟϹ Κ |
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| Mintage | ND (292-293) |
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Year L Α (year 1) of Diocletian's reign at Alexandria corresponds to 284–285 AD, yet this piece dates to 292–293 — year 9, not year 1. The notation likely reflects a reset of the regnal count following Diocletian's currency reform of 293/294, when he restructured the tetrachic monetary system and the Alexandrian mint recalibrated its dating conventions accordingly. Egypt's mint had operated under a separate regnal-year reckoning since Ptolemaic times, a bureaucratic tradition Rome never fully suppressed.