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AR24 - Pertinax L Α
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 193 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Nike, the winged goddess of victory, advancing left in full stride, her wings partially spread, holding a wreath extended in both hands before her. She is depicted in flowing robes rendered in the conventional Alexandrian provincial style. The field to the left bears the regnal year inscription L Α (year 1), indicating the first year of Pertinax's reign. The reverse design is set within a plain circular border consistent with Alexandrian tetradrachm coinage of 193 AD. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Pertinax's reign lasted 87 days. The Alexandrian mint, operating on its own regnal-year calendar, managed to strike coins acknowledging him before his murder by the Praetorian Guard in March 193 — all of them falling within Year 1, making a Year 2 issue a chronological impossibility. The provincial billon fabric of Egyptian tetradrachms differs markedly from Roman silver of the same period, the alloy having degraded so severely by the late second century that "billon" is generous.