Tetradrachm - Diocletianus L B, Eirene, Alexandria

Diocletian's second regnal year issues from Alexandria — marked by the LB date — fall within his earliest months of consolidating power after the murder of Numerian and the defeat of Carinus. The Eirene type was deliberately propagandistic: peace imagery deployed by a soldier-emperor whose reign would in fact be defined by relentless military campaigning across the Danube frontier, Persia, and Egypt itself.

The Alexandrian tetradrachm series ended entirely with Diocletian's currency reforms of 296–297 AD, making LB-dated pieces among the later survivors of a coinage tradition stretching back to the Ptolemies.