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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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| Technique | Hammered |
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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, identifying the syncretic Graeco-Egyptian deity closely associated with the Cyrenaican region. The bust is rendered with curly hair and a short beard, in a style reflecting local Cyrenaican artistic conventions. The surrounding Greek legend ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤ Γ records Trajan's tribunician power and third consulship, dating the issue precisely to 100 CE. The reverse field is slightly worn but the iconographic details of Zeus Ammon remain clearly legible. |
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Cyrenaica and Crete were administered as a single senatorial province from roughly 27 BC, an awkward pairing of geographically distant territories that persisted into Trajan's reign. Provincial silver of this weight and module from Cyrenaica is exceptionally scarce — Rome had long suppressed local silver coinage across most eastern provinces, and issues that did emerge tend to reflect specific municipal or ceremonial needs rather than routine circulation. The tribunician and consular titulature in the legend dates this piece to Trajan's third consulship, placing it precisely in 100 AD, the same year he delivered his famous Panegyricus before the Senate.