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AR24 - Trajan L ΙΕ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 111-112 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Reverse description | An eagle stands facing right with head turned back to the left, wings spread and slightly raised in the characteristic Alexandrian coinage type. The bird is depicted with considerable naturalistic detail, its talons planted firmly on a ground line. Flanking the eagle in the field are the regnal year date legend L ΙΕ (Year 15), the date mark L appearing to the left and ΙΕ to the right. The design is contained within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse lettering | L ΙΕ |
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Year 15 of Trajan's reign corresponds to a period of intense military preparation — the First Dacian War had concluded in 102 AD, and Rome was already rebuilding diplomatic and logistical infrastructure ahead of the Second, which would begin in 105. Alexandria's mint continued producing tetradrachms on the debased billon standard that had defined provincial Egyptian coinage since Nero's catastrophic reduction of the late 60s AD, a debasement never fully reversed under any subsequent emperor.