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AR23 - Severus Alexander L ΙΓ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 233-234 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Homonoia, the personification of concord and harmony, depicted standing facing with head turned to the left. She extends her right hand in a gesture of greeting or offering, while her left arm cradles a double cornucopia overflowing with fruits and grain. A palm branch, symbolic of victory and prosperity, appears in the left field beside the figure. The regnal year date L ΙΓ (year 13, corresponding to 233–234 AD) is inscribed in the field. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Year 13 of Severus Alexander's reign fell during a period of mounting pressure on Rome's eastern frontier, where Ardashir I had recently overthrown the Parthian Arsacids and founded the Sassanid Empire — a far more aggressive neighbor. Alexandria's mint continued producing billon tetradrachms on its own reckoning, tying issues to regnal years rather than the Roman consular calendar, which makes dating these pieces unusually precise by provincial standards. The billon content by this period had degraded considerably from earlier imperial-era Egyptian coinage.