Æ26 - Trajan ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤΟ Ϛ ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΚΥΠΡΙΩΝ

The Koinon of Cyprus — the island's provincial assembly — held the rare privilege of striking bronze coinage in its own name under Roman rule, a concession tied to Cyprus's status as a senatorial province governed without a standing army. The consular date encoded in the legend, ΥΠΑΤΟ Ϛ (sixth consulship), pins this issue firmly to 112–117 AD, years when Trajan was consumed by his Parthian campaign. Cyprus itself remained a backwater of that war, its main contribution the violent suppression of a catastrophic Jewish revolt in 116 AD that ancient sources claim killed tens of thousands of the island's inhabitants.