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Æ29 - Domitian L ΙΑ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 91-92 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | L ΙΑ (Translation: of year 11) |
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This issue dates to Domitian's eleventh regnal year in Egypt — a year counted from his accession by the Alexandrian calendar, not the Roman. The Egyptian provincial mint operated on its own dating system, making these year-labeled bronzes unusually precise chronological markers compared to most imperial coinage. By 91–92, Domitian's principate had entered its harshest phase; Suetonius records that senators were being tried for treason on increasingly thin pretexts, and Domitian had assumed near-continuous consulships that his contemporaries found constitutionally aggressive.
The Alexandrian mint was prolific but its bronzes circulated almost exclusively within Egypt, rarely traveling beyond the province's borders.