Æ14 - Domitian L ΙΑ

Year 11 of Domitian's reign — the period when his increasingly autocratic behavior had alienated the Senate to the point that damnatio memoriae would be declared immediately upon his assassination in 96 AD. Provincial bronze from Alexandria in this era was struck under the prefecture of Egypt, a post of extraordinary sensitivity: emperors deliberately barred senators from holding it, appointing equestrians instead, precisely because Egypt's grain supply gave whoever controlled it leverage over Rome itself.