Æ35 - Trajan L ΙϚ

Year 16 of Trajan's reign in Egypt corresponds to 112–113 AD, a moment when Alexandria's mint was producing heavily for a population that relied almost entirely on bronze for daily transactions — Roman Egypt operated a closed currency system, meaning provincials could not legally use imperial coinage without exchange, and the local Alexandrian issues filled that gap entirely. The mint's output in this regnal year was substantial, and surviving pieces vary considerably in striking quality depending on die state.

The III#4741.2 reference places this within Dattari-Savio, the standard corpus for Alexandrian bronzes. Dattari's original collection, assembled in Cairo around the turn of the twentieth century, remains the foundation for attribution of these provincial issues.