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AR24 - Trebonianus Gallus L - Γ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 252-253 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Reverse description | Radiate and draped bust of Helios facing right, his flowing locks surmounted by a radiate crown with prominent solar rays spreading outward. The drapery falls over the left shoulder in the Alexandrian tradition. The regnal year date L-Γ (year 3) appears divided on either side of the bust in the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | L - Γ |
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Trebonianus Gallus came to power in 251 after Decius and his son were killed fighting the Goths at Abritus — the first Roman emperors to die in battle against a foreign enemy. His reign lasted barely two years before his own troops mutinied in favor of Aemilianus. The Alexandrian mint continued its Egyptian regnal-year coinage regardless, operating with a bureaucratic indifference to the chaos in Rome that characterizes the entire third-century provincial series.
The Γ (year 3) designation places this piece in his final regnal year, 252–253. Year 3 Alexandrian issues of Gallus are notably scarcer than year 1 output.