Æ34 - Trajan L ΙΓ

Year 13 of Trajan's reign saw Alexandria's mint producing heavily in bronze — the Nile flood had been favorable, grain shipments to Rome were running smoothly, and the provincial economy was stable enough to absorb large fiduciary coinage. Egypt's dating system, tied to regnal years rather than consular reckoning, makes pieces like this precisely anchored in a way that most Roman provincial bronzes are not.