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AR24 - Hadrian L Γ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 118-119 |
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| Reference(s) | Milne 530; Dattari 1373; Emmett 830.3 |
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| Reverse description | An eagle stands facing right, its head turned back to the left, perched upon a thunderbolt rendered horizontally across the field. The eagle's wings are partially spread, with feather detail visible on the body despite the wear. The regnal date legend L Γ (Year 3) appears in the left field, indicating the third year of Hadrian's reign in the Alexandrian dating system. The composition is framed by a beaded border. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Year three of Hadrian's reign marked his first major administrative reorganization of Egypt, consolidating the province's fiscal apparatus after Trajan's costly Parthian campaigns had stretched imperial finances. The Alexandrian mint operated under tight Roman supervision — unlike most provincial bronzes, these silver tetradrachms fed directly into the local monetized economy, their silver content carefully debased relative to the imperial denarius to prevent arbitrage and outflow from the province.
Milne 530 is a well-documented emission with no notable die anomalies flagged in the literature.