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AR23 - Severus Alexander L ΙΑ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 231-232 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | L ΙΑ |
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Year 11 of Severus Alexander's reign corresponds to a period of mounting pressure on Rome's eastern frontier, culminating in his campaigns against the Sassanid Persians under Ardashir I. The Alexandrian mint continued striking its distinctive billon tetradrachms throughout — Egypt's monetary system remained deliberately isolated from the Roman denarius, a quarantine that had persisted since Augustus and kept Alexandrian coinage non-exportable by design.
Dattari 4372 is well-documented from the early 20th-century Cairo collection that forms the backbone of Alexandrian numismatic classification. Emmett 3169.11 assigns this to the eleventh regnal year with reasonable confidence based on the L ΙΑ date formula.