Æ33 - Trajan L ΙΒ

Year 12 of Trajan's reign in Egypt — 108/109 AD — falls squarely within the period of his Dacian Wars, and Alexandria's mint was operating under the pressures of a Roman imperial administration funneling resources toward the Danubian frontier. The Alexandrian bronze coinage used a distinct regnal year system tied to the Egyptian calendar, making precise dating of these issues unusually reliable compared to most provincial bronzes.

The L ΙΒ date formula is the Alexandrian mint's standard regnal notation, with L functioning as an abbreviation for the Egyptian word for "year." Reference III#4294.5 suggests a well-catalogued but not especially rare variety within the Trajanic Alexandrian sequence.