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Æ32 - Trajan L ΙϚ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 112-113 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC III#4661.2 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Two canopi (Canopic jars of Osiris) depicted upright and facing, set side by side upon a low rectangular base or plinth. The canopi are rendered in a frontal, hieratic style typical of Alexandrian provincial coinage, each jar surmounted by its characteristic lid. The regnal date legend L ΙϚ (year 16) appears in the field, flanking the central motif. The flan exhibits a crack to the left and overall granular surface patination. |
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Year 16 of Trajan's reign in Egypt — 112/113 AD — falls squarely in the middle of his Dacian victory period, but Alexandrian bronze production at this moment was more directly shaped by the city's own administrative calendar than by Roman imperial politics. The Alexandrian mint dated coins by regnal year rather than Roman consular convention, a practice inherited from Ptolemaic tradition that survived well into the third century.
The III#4661.2 reference places this within Emmett's corpus of Alexandrian provincials, where Trajanic bronzes of this size are frequently found with die axis inconsistencies — a known characteristic of the Alexandria mint's less rigid production controls compared to Rome.