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Æ34 - Trajan L ΙΘ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 115-116 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Year 19 of Trajan's reign corresponds to 115–116 AD, when the emperor was deep into his Parthian campaign — the most ambitious Roman eastern offensive since Antony. Alexandria's mint continued producing large bronze drachms throughout, and the L ΙΘ date mark is the mint's own regnal year notation, a convention unique to Egypt's semi-autonomous monetary administration that persisted from Ptolemaic practice.
The 34mm module places this among the heavier civic bronzes of the Alexandrian sequence. Trajan died in 117 before returning to Rome, making his final regnal years — including this one — relatively compressed in the numismatic record.