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AR22 - Antoninus Pius L Κ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 156-157 |
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| Reference(s) | Emmett 1428.20; Dattari 2928; Milne 2188 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | L Κ |
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Year 20 of Antoninus Pius's reign — the regnal year denoted by the L Κ in the type designation — places this issue squarely within a period of administrative stability in Roman Egypt that was, by the standards of the province, almost uneventful. Alexandria's billon tetradrachms of this period were struck in a debased silver alloy controlled by the imperial government, which maintained a deliberate monopoly on Egyptian coinage: foreign silver was confiscated at the border and exchanged for local issues, keeping the provincial currency entirely captive to Rome's monetary policy for Egypt.