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Æ27 - Traianus ΤΙΒΕΡΙΕΩΝ Τ ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟ
| Issuer | Tiberias |
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| Year | 98-99 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Emperor Trajan facing right, with an aegis visible on the left shoulder, rendered in the prevailing provincial portrait style. The emperor's features are boldly modeled, characteristic of early Trajanic provincial coinage. The encircling Greek legend runs along the periphery of the flan. The flan is somewhat irregular, typical of provincial hammered bronze issues of this period. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Tiberias was founded by Herod Antipas around 20 AD on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, deliberately built over a cemetery — a fact that made the city ritually impure and initially unpopular among observant Jews. By the time of Trajan's reign, however, the city had become a functioning administrative and commercial center, and its civic bronze coinage was a practical tool of local exchange rather than any statement of political ambition. RPC III 3923 belongs to a small cluster of Tiberian issues struck in the early years of Trajan's reign, before the city's mint output shifted in character under later emperors.