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AR23 - Antoninus Pius L ΙΖ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 153-154 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Dikaiosyne, the personification of Justice, seated on a throne to the left, rendered in a draped garment in the Alexandrian provincial style. She holds a pair of scales in her extended right hand and a cornucopia in her left arm, symbolizing equity and abundance. The regnal year date appears in the left field as L ΙΖ (Year 17 of Antoninus Pius, corresponding to 153–154 AD). The figure is rendered with the broad, somewhat schematic treatment characteristic of mid-second-century Alexandrian coinage. |
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Year 17 of Antoninus Pius's reign was a period of conspicuous administrative stability in Egypt — which is itself historically unusual. The Alexandria mint under Roman rule produced billon tetradrachms on an annual cycle tied to the Egyptian regnal year, and the L ΙΖ date places this piece firmly within that system. Alexandria's billon coinage was technically provincial but functionally essential, circulating exclusively within Egypt's closed monetary economy where Roman silver denarii were officially excluded from use.
The Dattari 3350 reference traces to Giovanni Dattari's landmark 1901 corpus, still the foundational die study for Alexandrian tetradrachms despite its age.