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AR26 - Nero ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣΥΝΗ, L Ε
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 58-59 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Nero, right |
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| Reverse lettering | ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣΥΝΗ, L Ε |
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Struck in the fifth regnal year of Nero's reign, this Alexandrian tetradrachm comes from a period before the emperor's reputation had fully curdled in the historical record. The Alexandria mint operated under tight imperial oversight, and its billon and silver issues functioned as a closed currency system — Roman coins did not circulate freely in Egypt, and Egyptian issues did not leave the province, a monetary quarantine enforced since Augustus absorbed the country as personal imperial property after Actium.
ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣΥΝΗ — "Justice" — as a reverse type in year five sits in an optimistic early stretch of Nero's reign that Tacitus and Suetonius both describe as genuinely competent, guided heavily by Seneca and Burrus.