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AR25 - Hadrian L ΔΕΚΑΤΟΥ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 125-126 |
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| Weight | 12.66 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Hadrian facing right, seen from the rear, with finely rendered curled hair and beard. The imperial effigy is depicted in the Alexandrian provincial style, with the paludamentum visible over the cuirass. A beaded border frames the periphery of the flan. The Greek legend ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑ ϹΕΒ (Autokrator Kaisar Traianos Hadrianos Sebastos) is distributed around the bust. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ - ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑ ϹΕΒ |
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Year 10 of Hadrian's reign corresponds to a period when the emperor was physically present in Egypt — he arrived in 130 AD, but the administrative machinery of the Alexandrian mint was already producing regnal-year issues that tracked his titulature closely. The billon tetradrachm series from Alexandria is technically distinctive: the alloy was tightly controlled by the Ptolemaic-derived monetary system that Rome inherited and never fully reformed, keeping Egyptian coinage deliberately inconvertible with the rest of the imperial currency to contain silver drain from the province.
Köln 935 and RPC III 5826 document this type without flagging significant die variation, though Dattari's original corpus, later revised by Savio, remains the foundational die reference for the series.