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.
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.