AR26 - Hadrian L ΕΝΔΕΚΑΤΟΥ

Year 11 of Hadrian's reign fell during his extended tour of the eastern provinces — he visited Egypt in 130 AD, but the administrative machinery of Alexandria was already producing coins in his name years before he arrived in person. The Alexandrian mint operated under a distinct billon standard entirely separate from the Roman imperial silver system, a deliberate retention of Ptolemaic-era monetary tradition that Rome never bothered to harmonize. Egyptian coinage remained inconvertible outside the province by law.

The Köln and Dattari references place this piece within a well-documented regnal year, making attribution unusually clean for a provincial issue of this period.