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AR23 - Antoninus Pius L Κ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 156-157 |
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| Weight | 13.50 g |
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| Reverse description | Sarapis standing facing, his head turned to the right, wearing the modius (kalathos) upon his head, and holding a taenia (fillet) in his extended hand. Flanking him on either side stand the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, each crowned with a star, facing forward with heads turned toward Sarapis, and each holding a bridle and whip. The regnal year date L Κ (year 20) appears in the field. |
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| Mint | Alexandria (ancient), Egypt (332 BC - 476 AD) |
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Year 20 of Antoninus Pius's reign — the regnal year encoded in the "L Κ" notation — fell during one of the more administratively stable periods of Roman Egypt, when the Alexandrian mint was producing billon tetradrachms at a pace reflecting both population demand and the prefecture's relative prosperity. The billon alloy used at Alexandria was already debased well below early imperial standards by this point, a slow degradation that had been underway since Nero's currency reforms of 64 AD fundamentally altered Egyptian monetary practice.