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AR23 - Hadrian L Η
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 123-124 |
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| Weight | 12.70 g |
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| Reverse description | Tyche, the personification of Fortune and tutelary deity of Alexandria, depicted standing facing with head turned to the left. She holds a long rudder in her right hand and a cornucopia (horn of plenty) in her left arm, standard iconographic attributes identifying her civic role. The reverse field is plain, with the regnal year legend L Η (Year 8, corresponding to 123–124 AD) inscribed to the left of the figure. The composition follows well-established Alexandrian provincial die-cutting conventions. |
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| Mint | Alexandria (ancient), Egypt (332 BC - 476 AD) |
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Year 8 of Hadrian's reign fell during his extended tour of the eastern provinces — he would not reach Egypt itself until 130–131, but Alexandria's mint was already producing issues that tracked imperial titulature with unusual precision. The regnal year system used by the Alexandrian mint, expressed here as L Η, was a Greek administrative inheritance from the Ptolemaic era that Rome never bothered to replace, making Egyptian provincial bronzes and silver the only Roman-era coins dated by a continuous local reckoning rather than by consular or tribunician notation.