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| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 109-110 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Alexandria |
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Year 13 of Trajan's reign in Egypt — 109/110 AD — falls squarely within the period of his Dacian wars, and Alexandria's mint was operating under the administrative pressures of an empire financing two major Danubian campaigns in quick succession. Alexandrian bronze of this regnal year is not scarce, but the city's dating system by Egyptian regnal year makes precise attribution straightforward in a way that Roman provincial issues rarely allow.
The mint at Alexandria operated continuously from the Ptolemaic period and was never fully absorbed into the Roman imperial mint structure, retaining its own flan preparation methods and regnal-year dating through to Diocletian's currency reform of 296 AD.