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AR25 - Tiberius ΘΕΟΣ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 33-34 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Alexandria (ancient), Egypt (332 BC - 476 AD) |
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Issued under the Alexandrian mint in regnal year 20 of Tiberius, this tetradrachm belongs to a series that applied the honorific ΘΕΟΣ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ — "Divine Augustus" — to the deified predecessor rather than the reigning emperor, a distinction the Alexandrian mint maintained with unusual consistency. Augustus had received divine honors in Egypt immediately upon his death in 14 AD, the province treating imperial cult as a natural extension of Ptolemaic tradition. Tiberius himself resisted deification during his own lifetime, famously dismissing senatorial flattery on the matter.