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AR25 - Hadrian ΕΤ ΕΝΑΤ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 124-125 |
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| Reference(s) | Köln 951; Dattari 1455; Emmett 838.9 |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ - ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑ ϹΕΒ |
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| Edge | Plain |
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This tetradrachm belongs to year nine of Hadrian's reign — ΕΤ ΕΝΑΤ being the Greek rendering of "year nine" in the Egyptian regnal calendar, which reset with each emperor's accession rather than following a fixed civic year. Hadrian was almost certainly in Egypt himself in 130 AD, not 124–125, so this coin predates his famous Nile tour by half a decade; it was struck while the emperor was still consolidating his early provincial policy from a distance.
The Alexandrian mint operated under tight prefectural control and its billon tetradrachms were not interchangeable with Roman silver — a deliberate monetary boundary Rome maintained to keep Egyptian coinage a closed currency system.