Æ34 - Trajan L Κ

Year 20 of Trajan's reign, which this coin marks with the regnal date L Κ, fell during his Parthian campaign — the farthest east any Roman emperor would ever push the empire's borders. Trajan took Ctesiphon and briefly reached the Persian Gulf, reportedly lamenting that he was too old to follow in Alexander's footsteps. He died at Selinus in Cilicia the following year before returning to Rome.

Alexandria's bronze coinage under Trajan is heavily dated, and the L Κ issues represent some of the last struck in his name before the Hadrianic retooling of the mint.