Æ34 - Trajan L ΙΖ

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.