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Æ33 - Trajan L ΙΑ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 107-108 |
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| Weight | 17.78 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate bust of Emperor Trajan facing right, portrayed nude with an aegis draped over the left shoulder, a characteristic attribute evoking divine or heroic status. The effigy displays the emperor's distinctive features rendered in the Alexandrian provincial style. A Greek legend encircles the bust, running along the periphery of the flan. The flan is broad and irregular, typical of Alexandrian bronze coinage of the period. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ (Translation: Emperor Trajan Augustus Germanicus Dacicus) |
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Regnal year 11 of Trajan's reign places this issue squarely in the period following the First Dacian War and during the buildup to the Second — a moment when Alexandrian civic minting was operating under considerable pressure to produce bronze for local Egyptian commerce while imperial attention and resources were fixed on the Danube frontier. The Alexandrian mint functioned as a closed currency system; Egyptian bronze did not circulate outside the province, and foreign coinage could not legally circulate within it.