Æ34 - Trajan ΕΡΜΟΠΟΛΙΤΗϹ, L ΙΓ

Hermopolis Magna — the city whose ethnic name appears in this coin's legend — was among the most religiously significant sites in Roman Egypt, home to the cult of Thoth whom the Greeks syncretized with Hermes. The ΕΡΜΟΠΟΛΙΤΗϹ designation marks this as a nome coin, one of a series Alexandria struck to represent Egypt's administrative districts under Trajan. L ΙΓ places production in regnal year 13, which corresponds to 109/110 AD, a period when Trajan was focused on the Dacian aftermath and planning his Parthian campaign.