Æ10 - Vespasian L Θ

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.