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Æ10 - Vespasian L Θ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 76-77 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC II#2764 |
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| Reverse description | Nike, the winged goddess of victory, advancing left in a striding pose, holding a wreath in her extended right hand and a palm frond in her left. The figure is rendered in the abbreviated style typical of small Alexandrian bronze denominations. The regnal date legend L Θ (year 9) appears in the field, denoting the ninth year of Vespasian's reign corresponding to 76–77 CE. |
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| Mint | Alexandria |
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Year 9 of Vespasian's reign corresponds to 76–77 AD, a period when the Alexandrian mint was producing an unusually wide range of small bronze denominations for local Egyptian circulation — coins that never legally left the province under Rome's closed currency system. This tiny piece is among the smallest of that output, struck for a market where even fractional bronze had real purchasing utility in the grain economy of the Nile Delta.