Æ16 - Trajan ΕΤ ΑΙ

Caesarea served as the administrative capital of Cappadocia and the seat of the Roman governor, giving its civic coinage an official weight that smaller provincial mints lacked. The ΕΤ ΑΙ designation marks this piece to regnal year 11 of Trajan's reign — a dating convention that Cappadocian civic issues maintained with unusual consistency, making them among the more precisely attributable bronzes from the eastern provincial series.