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Æ19 - Domitian ΡΩΜΗ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 84-85 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC II#2508 |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑΝΟΣ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ, L Δ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, of year 4) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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This Alexandria civic issue falls within Year 4 of Domitian's reign, a period when the emperor was consolidating administrative control over Egypt — already Rome's most tightly managed province, governed directly through a prefect rather than a senatorial proconsul precisely because Augustus feared its grain wealth in the hands of a rival. The ΡΩΜΗ type places the personification of Rome herself on an Alexandrian bronze, a pointed reminder of the city's subordinate relationship to the capital.