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AR24 - Trajan L Κ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 116-117 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Draped bust of Nilus facing right, the deity crowned with a taenia and lotus-buds symbolic of the Nile's bounty; a cornucopia rests at the shoulder. The regnal date legend L Κ (Year 20) appears in the field, serving as the principal reverse inscription on this Alexandrian tetradrachm. |
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Year 20 of Trajan's reign in Egypt — the Alexandrian regnal calendar ran from late summer, meaning this tetradrachm was struck in the final months before his death in August 117. Trajan died at Selinus in Cilicia while returning from his Parthian campaigns, never reaching Rome. The coinage of L Κ is consequently scarce relative to earlier years in the series, with production almost certainly interrupted mid-year as news of his failing health, and then his death, reached the mint.