Æ29 - Domitian L ΙΑ

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.