Æ ΤΑΜΙΑΣ ΑΝΤΙϹΤΡΑ L Λ

Issued during the chaotic final years before Actium, this bronze belongs to the brief administrative experiment of combining Cyrenaica and Crete as a single Roman province — an arrangement that lasted only from around 34 BC until Augustus reorganized the east following his victory over Antony. The magistrate name encoded in the legend identifies a quaestor-level official, the ΤΑΜΙΑΣ (tamias) being the Greek equivalent of quaestor, responsible for provincial finances at a moment when those finances were being squeezed hard by the competing demands of Antony and Octavian.

The L Λ in the legend denotes regnal year 30 in the Ptolemaic counting system — a dating convention retained long after direct Ptolemaic rule had ended in Cyrene.