Æ27 - Traianus ΤΙΒΕΡΙΕΩΝ Τ ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟ

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.