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Æ34 - Trajan L ΙΓ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 109-110 |
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| Weight | 22.76 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Harpocrates depicted with a human upper body and the lower body of a crocodile, standing left, wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt (pschent). The deity raises his right hand to his mouth in the characteristic gesture of silence or childhood, while his left arm cradles a cornucopia. Two ceremonial bases or altars decorated with garlands flank the figure; on the foreground base rests a hydria, while the base behind supports a tetrastyle or pentastyle temple façade adorned with a frieze of uraei along its entablature. The date regnal year legend appears in the field. |
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Year 13 of Trajan's reign marked a singular moment in Roman Egypt: the emperor had just returned from reorganizing the Nabataean kingdom into the new province of Arabia Petraea, and Alexandrian bronze coinage of this regnal year reflects the administrative confidence of an empire at its widest coherent extent. The Alexandrian mint operated under tight prefectural control, dating each issue by regnal year — a practice that makes precise attribution straightforward but also means any die anomaly is immediately isolatable to a twelve-month window.
The reference III#4396A suggests a relatively uncommon die pairing within the series.