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AR23 - Hadrian L Γ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 118-119 |
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| Weight | 12.28 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Emperor Hadrian facing right, with drapery visible on the left shoulder, rendered in the Alexandrian provincial style. A six-pointed star appears in the right field. The Greek imperial legend encircles the portrait, reading partially around the upper and left periphery of the flan. The portrait displays characteristic Hadrianic features with a short beard and laureate wreath, consistent with early regnal Alexandrian tetradrachm iconography. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Year 3 of Hadrian's reign in Alexandria corresponds to 118–119 AD, the period immediately following his consolidation of power after Trajan's death and the suppression of the Jewish diaspora revolts that had devastated Egypt's population and economy just years earlier. The Alexandrian mint operated under Roman prefectural authority but retained its own dating system — regnal years expressed in Greek — a deliberate accommodation to local administrative tradition that persisted across centuries of Roman rule.