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Æ25 - Domitian ΕΤΟΥΣ ΤΡΙΤΟΥ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 83-84 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Emperor Domitian facing right, rendered in the provincial style characteristic of Alexandrian coinage. The effigy displays the emperor's characteristic features with a laurel wreath crown. A Greek legend encircles the portrait in the surrounding field, reading from the left side of the flan. |
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| Mintage | ND (83-84) |
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This piece dates to Domitian's third regnal year in Egypt — "ΕΤΟΥΣ ΤΡΙΤΟΥ" denoting year three of his reign, a dating convention specific to the Alexandrian provincial system that reset with each emperor's accession rather than following the Roman consular calendar. Egypt operated as an imperial province directly under the emperor's personal control, closed to senators and governed by a prefect, which gave its coinage an administrative insularity found nowhere else in the empire. The Alexandrian mint was producing bronze at considerable volume during this period to meet local transactional demand.