Drachm - Marcus Aurelius M AVPHΛIOC KAICAP

This issue dates to regnal year 17 of Antoninus Pius, when Marcus Aurelius held the title Caesar and had been groomed for succession for nearly two decades. The Alexandrian mint operated under Roman administrative oversight but retained its own dating system tied to the Egyptian regnal calendar — a bureaucratic quirk that makes precise attribution to Roman consular years more complex than it appears. Emmett 1892.17 places this firmly within a well-documented sequence, though die alignment and fabric can vary considerably across the year's output.