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AR24 - Antoninus Pius Μ ΑΥΡΗ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ L Ε

Issuer Alexandria (Egypt)
Year 141-142
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Diameter 24 mm
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Obverse script Greek
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Reverse lettering Μ ΑΥΡΗ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ L Ε
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Year 5 of Antoninus Pius's reign — rendered on Alexandrian coinage as L Ε — places this issue in 141/142 AD, the same year Antoninus secured the deification of his adoptive predecessor Hadrian after initial senatorial resistance. The Alexandria mint operated under the prefect of Egypt as a closed currency system; these billon tetradrachms could not legally circulate outside Egypt's borders, feeding a monetized provincial economy that ran parallel to, but largely separate from, the wider imperial coinage network.

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