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Æ34 - Trajan L ΙΖ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 113-114 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC III#4798 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Emperor Trajan, laureate and togate, standing in a triumphal quadriga advancing right, holding an eagle-tipped sceptre and a branch; a small Victory figure crowns him with a wreath from above. Behind the quadriga, a column surmounted by a standing figure raising one hand and apparently holding a club. The composition celebrates Trajan's Dacian triumph and is characteristic of the commemorative reverse types issued by the Alexandrian mint during regnal year 17. |
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Year 17 of Trajan's reign coincided with the period immediately preceding his Parthian campaign, when Alexandria's mint was operating at high volume to supply a province that functioned as the empire's grain engine. Egyptian bronze coinage of this regnal year was dated by the local calendar system — the "L ΙΖ" formula denoting year 17 — a practice unique to Alexandria among Roman provincial mints and maintained without interruption from Augustus through Diocletian's coinage reforms.