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AR20 - Diocletian L Α
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 285-286 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Eirene, the personification of Peace, standing left in long chiton and himation, holding an olive branch in her extended right hand and a long sceptre in her left. A six-pointed star appears in the left field. The regnal date L Α (Year 1, corresponding to 285-286 AD) is split across the field, with L to the left and Α to the right of the figure. The reverse type follows standard Alexandrian civic coinage conventions for this era. |
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Year L Α (regnal year 1) of Diocletian's reign in Egypt corresponds to 284–285 AD, placing this piece among the earliest Alexandrian tetradrachms struck under his rule. Diocletian would later prove transformative for Egypt specifically — his edict of 296–297 abolished the Alexandrian tetradrachm coinage entirely, replacing it with the empire-wide post-reform coinage system. This coin predates that rupture by over a decade, issued when the old Ptolemaic-rooted denominational tradition still functioned as Egypt's closed currency system.