Æ18 - Domitian L ΙΑ

Domitian's eleventh regnal year in Egypt — marked on this coin by the L ΙΑ date formula — fell during the period immediately following his Danubian campaigns and the consolidation of the German frontier. The Alexandrian mint dated its bronzes by Egyptian regnal year rather than Roman consular year, a bureaucratic habit that makes precise synchronization with Roman imperial chronology slightly more involved than it appears.