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Æ30 - Domitian L ΙΑ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 91-92 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC II#2597B |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ ΘΕΟΥ ΥΙΟϹ ΔΟΜΙΤ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ (Translation: Emperor Caesar, son of a god, Domitian Augustus Germanicus) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Domitian's eleventh regnal year in Alexandria corresponds to 91–92 AD, a period when his rule in Rome had grown openly autocratic — the Senate would later subject his memory to damnatio memoriae following his assassination in 96 AD. Alexandrian bronze coinage from his reign survives in reasonable numbers, but the damnatio created no systematic destruction of provincial issues the way it affected official Roman portraits, leaving Egyptian bronzes largely untouched by political erasure.
The II#2597B reference places this within a recognized but modestly documented variety. Strike quality on Alexandrian bronzes of this period is notoriously inconsistent, a product of high-volume local production rather than any specific technical failure.