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AR23 - Severus Alexander L ΙΒ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 232-233 |
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| Diameter | 23 mm |
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| Reverse description | Elpis, the personification of Hope, stands in a graceful contrapposto pose facing left. She holds a flower in her raised right hand and with her left hand lifts the hem of her chiton in the characteristic attribute of this deity. A palm branch is placed in the field before her, serving as an additional symbol of hope and victory. The regnal year legend appears in the field. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Year 12 of Severus Alexander's reign fell during a period of mounting pressure on Rome's eastern frontier, with the newly ascendant Sasanian Empire under Ardashir I actively pushing into Roman Mesopotamia. Alexandria's mint continued its unbroken tradition of regnal-year dating — unique among Roman provincial mints — making these billon tetradrachms precise chronological markers in a way Roman imperial coinage rarely allows. The Dattari collection, from which one of the primary reference numbers derives, was assembled by Giovanni Dattari in early 20th-century Cairo and remains the foundational corpus for Alexandrian tetradrachms of this period.