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Æ24 - Domitian L ΕΝΑΤ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 89-90 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑΝΟΣ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus) |
| Reverse description | The sacred Apis bull advancing to the right, rendered with characteristic Egyptian religious iconography. An altar is depicted before the bull in the left field, referencing the sacred cult of Apis at Memphis. The regnal date legend appears in the field, confirming the ninth year of Domitian's reign. The composition reflects the syncretic Graeco-Egyptian religious tradition prominent in Alexandrian coinage. |
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Year nine of Domitian's reign in Egypt — rendered in the dating system the Alexandrian mint maintained independently of Rome — places this issue squarely in the years following his Danubian campaigns, when imperial propaganda was running at full pitch. Egypt remained a crown province administered directly through a prefect answerable only to the emperor, which gave the Alexandrian mint an unusually tight relationship with whatever the palace wanted communicated. Domitian's assassination in 96 AD prompted a calculated damnatio memoriae, making coins from his Egyptian series somewhat awkward survivors of official erasure.