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AR24 - Antoninus Pius L ΙΘ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 155-156 |
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| Diameter | 24 mm |
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| Reverse description | Dikaiosyne, the personification of Justice, depicted seated on a throne facing left, her drapery rendered in flowing folds. She extends her right hand forward holding a set of balance scales, while her left arm cradles a cornucopia, symbolising equity and abundance. The regnal year date L ΙΘ (year 19 of Antoninus Pius, corresponding to 155–156 AD) appears in the left field. |
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| Reverse lettering | L ΙΘ |
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Year 19 of Antoninus Pius's reign marked the final year of a notably long tenure for any prefect or administrative cycle in Roman Egypt, and Alexandrian mint output in this period was substantial — the billon tetradrachm series continued its slow debasement from the earlier Trajanic standard, with silver content by this point reduced to somewhere between 20 and 25 percent. Dattari 3378 is among the better-documented die pairings in the sequence, appearing with reasonable frequency in European collections derived from 19th-century Egyptian excavation lots.