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Æ33 - Trajan L ΙΕ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 111-112 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate bust of Emperor Trajan facing right, draped and cuirassed, seen from the rear, with the paludamentum visible over the left shoulder. The laureate wreath crowns the head with finely rendered hair locks falling behind the neck. The imperial effigy is rendered in the typical Alexandrian provincial style, with a beaded border encircling the coin. The Greek legend runs around the periphery of the obverse field, identifying the emperor with his full titulature. |
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| Reverse description | Harpocrates of Canopus depicted with a crocodile body in place of legs, standing left upon a rectangular basis, raising his right index finger to his lips in his characteristic gesture of silence, and holding a cornucopia in his left arm. An altar appears to the left of the figure. The syncretic deity combines the infant Harpocrates with the Canopic jar form, reflecting the distinctly Alexandrian blending of Egyptian and Hellenistic religious iconography. The regnal year legend appears in the field. |
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Year 15 of Trajan's reign, rendered in Alexandrian reckoning as L ΙΕ, places this issue squarely in the period between the two Dacian Wars — after the triumph of 102 AD but before the final campaign of 105–106. The Alexandrian mint operated on its own Egyptian calendar year, a administrative holdover from Ptolemaic practice that Rome never bothered to abolish, making precise synchronization with Roman consular dating a persistent exercise for cataloguers.
The mint's bronze output under Trajan was prolific, tied directly to the economic demands of Egypt as Rome's primary grain supplier.