AR24 - Marcus Aurelius ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑ L Α

This tetradrachm belongs to the first regnal year of Marcus Aurelius as sole emperor following the death of Antoninus Pius in March 161 — the same year he immediately elevated Lucius Verus as co-emperor, a deliberate break from the single-ruler model that had held for decades. The ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑ (Homonoia) type was no accident: it was Alexandria's pointed acknowledgment of that dyarchic arrangement, invoking the concept of concord between the two rulers at the precise moment it needed establishing.

Egyptian tetradrachms of L Α (year one) issues are typically among the scarcer regnal dates, struck in the narrow window before mint output ramped up for a new reign.