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AR24 - Antoninus Pius ΦΑΥϹΤΙΝΑ ΘΕΑ L Ε
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 141-142 |
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| Reference(s) | Emmett 1428.5; Dattari 2898; Milne 1670 |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Faustina the Elder died in 140 or 141 AD, and Antoninus Pius responded with an unusually sustained deification campaign — she received a flamen, a temple on the Via Sacra, and a dedicated colonial coinage series that ran for years after her death. This Alexandria issue, dated to regnal year 5 by the L Ε notation, falls within that first wave of posthumous honors. The Egyptian mint's billon tetradrachm series for the deified Faustina is well-documented across several regnal years, with year 5 among the more frequently encountered.