Æ35 - Trajan L ΙϚ

Regnal year 16 of Trajan's reign corresponds to 112–113 AD, a moment when Alexandria's mint was operating at considerable volume to supply Egypt's cash economy. The Egyptian provincial bronze series ran on its own dating system — the regnal year expressed in Greek numerals on the reverse — entirely independent of the Roman consular calendar used elsewhere in the empire. Egypt remained a monetarily isolated province by deliberate imperial policy; its coinage could not legally circulate outside the province, forcing exchange at the border.

The Æ35 is among the larger denominations in the Trajanic Alexandrian sequence, corresponding roughly to the diobol or larger fractions within the tetradrachm-based system.