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AR23 - Severus Alexander L Ζ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 227-228 |
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| Reference(s) | Köln 2580; Dattari 4301; Milne 2953 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Year 7 of Severus Alexander's reign, struck at the Alexandria mint under the dated regnal system Egypt's provincial coinage used long after the rest of the empire had abandoned it. The billon content by this period had been degrading for generations — the tetradrachm's silver fraction was already so diluted that these circulated more as token currency than precious metal coinage, a slow debasement that had begun under Nero's restructuring of the Alexandrian mint in 64 AD.
Milne's excavation records from Oxyrhynchus and Karanis show pieces of this exact type turning up in domestic hoards alongside papyrus receipts, confirming active day-to-day use.