Æ34 - Trajan L ΙϚ (?)

Year 16 of Trajan's reign in Egypt corresponds to 112–113 AD, a period when Alexandria's mint was producing large bronze denominations at considerable volume to serve the closed currency system Rome maintained over Egypt. The province operated its own monetized economy deliberately isolated from the rest of the empire — coins from elsewhere were exchanged at the border and melted, keeping Egyptian bronze circulating only within Egypt itself.

The reference III#4681.4 suggests a Dattari-Savio attribution, the standard corpus for Alexandrian bronzes. Specimens of this size frequently show uneven fabric from the casting of planchets rather than rolling, which is endemic to the Alexandrian series rather than indicative of any individual coin's quality.