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AR21 - Trajan ΔΗΜ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤ Β
| Issuer | Caesarea, Cappadocia (Provincial Mint) |
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| Year | 98-99 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Tyche standing left in full figure, draped in a long chiton, holding a ship's rudder in her extended right hand and a cornucopia in her raised left hand, emblematic of fortune and prosperity. The figure is rendered in the Hellenistic tradition standard to Cappadocian provincial types, with the rudder resting on the ground to her right. The Greek legend is distributed around the field in abbreviated form referencing Trajan's tribunician power and second consulship. The flan shows the typical irregular edge of a hammered provincial silver issue. |
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Caesarea in Cappadocia operated under tighter imperial oversight than most provincial mints, largely because the region's strategic position on the eastern frontier made its coinage a practical tool for paying troops rather than a civic expression. This issue falls within Trajan's first consulship after his accession — the ΔΗΜ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤ Β legend dating it precisely to 98-99, before the Dacian campaigns reshaped the empire's military priorities and flooded the mints with war-issue coinage.