Tetradrachm - Trajan

The attribution here is worth a moment's pause: Prieur lists this as a Tyre mint piece while RPC III assigns it to Antioch, a disagreement that reflects the broader difficulty in separating Syrian tetradrachm production across Trajanic mint facilities — physical die-linkage studies have yet to fully resolve the question. This is an early regnal issue, struck within months of Trajan's accession in January 98 AD, before the mint had fully transitioned away of Domitianic production habits.

The Antiochene tetradrachm series under Trajan ran continuously through his reign but year-one pieces carry the tightest die pools.