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AR23 - Severus Alexander L Ι
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 230-231 |
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| Weight | 11.28 g |
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| Obverse lettering | Α ΚΑΙ ΜΑΡ ΑΥΡ ϹΕΥ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟϹ (ΕΥ) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Alexandria's billon tetradrachms were the workhorse currency of Roman Egypt, a closed monetary system in which Roman silver was melted down at the border and reissued as debased provincial coinage — a deliberate fiscal mechanism that kept currency flows firmly under imperial control. By the reign of Severus Alexander, billon content had degraded substantially from earlier Julio-Claudian issues. The regnal year L Ι (year 10) places this piece in 230/231 AD, when Severus Alexander was managing mounting pressure on the eastern frontier ahead of the Sassanid revival under Ardashir I.