AR23 - Hadrian L Η

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.