AR19 - Trajan ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤ Γ

Cyrenaica's Greek-speaking civic authorities retained the right to strike provincial bronze under Rome, but silver issues from the region are rare — this piece, dating to Trajan's third consulship in 100 AD, reflects an administrative moment when the province was still governed jointly with Crete before Hadrian separated them. The Greek tribunician and consular titles rather than Latin abbreviations point to a mint operating within a deeply Hellenized tradition that Rome chose not to overwrite.