AR25 - Tiberius ΘΕΟΣ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ

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.