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AR16 - Trajan ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤ Γ
| Issuer | Cyrenaica (Cyrenaica and Crete) |
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| Year | 100 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Bare-headed bust of Zeus Ammon facing right, distinguished by the characteristic ram's horn curling behind the ear, with wavy hair and short beard rendered in a Hellenistic idiom typical of Cyrenaican coinage. The truncation of the bust is visible at the lower edge. A Greek legend surrounds the figure within a beaded border, abbreviating the emperor's tribunician and consular titles. |
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Cyrenaica's provincial coinage under Trajan occupies an awkward administrative moment — the province had been paired with Crete since Augustus reorganized the eastern territories, yet local mint output remained sparse and irregular. A silver piece of this weight sits comfortably within the hemidrachm range, consistent with the fractional denominations produced to meet small-transaction demand in a province whose economy leaned heavily on silphium export, though that trade was already in steep decline by the time Trajan's third consulship provided the tribunician titulature used here to date the issue precisely to 100 AD.