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AR24 - Antoninus Pius L ΔωΔΕΚΑΤΟΥ
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint (Alexandria) |
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| Year | 148-149 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Dikaiosyne, the personification of Justice, seated left on a high-backed throne, holding a set of scales in her right hand and a cornucopia in her left. The figure is rendered in the characteristic Alexandrian provincial style with flowing drapery. The regnal year legend L ΔΩΔΕΚΑΤΟΥ, denoting the twelfth year of Antoninus Pius, is inscribed around the field. |
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The dating formula ΔωΔΕΚΑΤΟΥ — "of the twelfth year" — places this issue in Antoninus Pius's twelfth regnal year by Egyptian reckoning, a calendar system the Alexandrian mint maintained independently of the Roman consular dating used elsewhere in the empire. Alexandria's billon tetradrachms from this period are among the better-documented provincial issues, with die studies by Emmett and others allowing reasonably precise sequencing within a given regnal year. The metal itself was already debased well before this reign; the mint had been running billon rather than true silver since at least the Neronian reforms of the 60s AD.