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Æ34 - Trajan L ΙΖ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 113-114 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Emperor Trajan, laureate and clad in military dress, depicted facing left, holding a Nike in his extended right hand and a sceptre in his left. To his right stands the personification of Alexandria, draped, facing left, her right arm raised and holding a sceptre. The two figures are shown in a formal presentational composition characteristic of Alexandrian civic coinage. The regnal year legend appears in the field. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Year 17 of Trajan's reign in Egypt corresponds to 113–114 AD, the same period he was marshaling resources for the Parthian campaign — a war that would briefly extend Roman control to the Persian Gulf. Alexandria's mint was among the most administratively complex in the empire, operating under the prefect of Egypt rather than the emperor's direct monetae, which gave its bronze output a distinctive local accounting system tied to the Egyptian calendar year rather than the imperial tribunician cycle. The L ΙΖ notation is that regnal year marker, peculiar to Alexandrian issues.