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AR25 - Hadrian L Δ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 119-120 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Alexandria (ancient), Egypt (332 BC - 476 AD) |
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Year four of Hadrian's reign — rendered as L Δ in the Alexandrian dating system — falls squarely in the period following his abandonment of Trajan's eastern conquests. Hadrian withdrew from Mesopotamia and Armenia shortly after his accession, a strategic retrenchment that generated real hostility in Rome but stabilized the eastern provinces. Egypt, the most tightly administered province in the empire, continued producing its own closed currency system: Alexandrian tetradrachms were technically billon, though early Hadrianic issues retain enough silver content to be catalogued as AR by some dealers.