AR26 - Pertinax L Α

Pertinax ruled for 87 days before the Praetorian Guard murdered him in March 193 AD, triggering the catastrophic Year of the Five Emperors. The Alexandria mint, operating under its own distinct dating system, managed to produce coinage for him — this piece dating to regnal year L Α, his first and only Egyptian year. Provincial Alexandrian output under such a brief emperor is inherently limited, and the references here — Köln, Dattari, Milne, BMC — all cite the same small corpus of known survivors.