Æ35 - Trajan L ΙΒ

Year 12 of Trajan's reign in Egypt — 108/109 AD — falls squarely within the period of his Dacian campaigns, and Alexandria's mint was operating under the administrative pressure of supplying a province whose grain exports were financing Roman military logistics across the eastern Mediterranean. The Alexandrian bronze series of this regnal year is moderately common by provincial standards, though the largest module pieces in particular show significant variation in flan preparation, with many exhibiting the rough, uneven edges characteristic of locally cast rather than rolled bronze stock.