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Chalkos - Tyre Palm tree
| Issuer | Tyre |
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| Year | 108-109 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse script | Greek, Phoenician |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tyre's civic bronze coinage under Trajan operated on a local era reckoning — the city counted years from 126/5 BC, the date Rome recognized its autonomy following the collapse of Seleucid control. Year 234 of that era falls to 108/9 AD, placing this piece firmly in the middle of Trajan's Dacian campaigns, though the mint continued its own chronological priorities regardless of imperial preoccupations.
RPC III 3885 is a well-documented type, with multiple examples recorded across European collections feeding the BMC 286 attribution.