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Æ34 - Trajan ΡΟΔΙΩΝ ΔΙΔΡΑΧΜΟΝ
| Issuer | Rhodes (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 98-117 |
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| Weight | 20.03 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑ ΚΑΙϹΑΡΑ ΝΕΡΟΥΑΝ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ (Translation: for Emperor Caesar Nerva Trajan) |
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Rhodes had long since lost genuine monetary autonomy by the time this issue appeared, its coinage rights existing at Roman sufferance within the reorganized judicial district centered at Alabanda. The didrachm denomination is a deliberate archaism — invoking the island's storied silver coinage tradition while producing the piece in bronze, a quiet acknowledgment of diminished circumstances.
Trajan's reign saw intensive civic coin production across the eastern provinces, partly tied to his Dacian and Parthian war financing demands redistributing precious metals upward.