Egypt. Alexandria. Trajan, 98-117. Drachm (Bronze, 33.30 mm, 21.13 g). Dated L I (B) = year 12 (108 / 109 AD) ΑΥΤ TPAIAN CEB (ΓEPM ΔAKIK) Laureate head of Trajan right with chlamys flap on left shoulder. Rev. Anepigraph. Roman-style triumphal arch with three arches and two symmetrical quadrangular windows above the minor arches; large tympanum on the tiburium with the solar disk in the centre; on the roof in the middle and frontally, the emperor with sceptre on a ceremonial chariot drawn by six horses and, at the sides, trophies and prisoners. In the field, the date L I(B). Vogt I, pp.71-74. Vogt II, p. 29. Dattari 1083 var. Geissen 470 var. RPC III 4337. Emmett 602. Staffieri, AIN, pp.79-80, Muzzano 2017. BB, slightly off-centre reverse. Ex Jean-Pierre Righetti Collection. Ex Münzen & Medaillen / Nomos AG, 12, 11.04.2003, lot 495. The depiction of the triumphal arch on the reverse of Alexandrian drachmas, which began with Domitian, ended with Hadrian and it is still to be considered rare and of exclusively Roman stylistic character, with no connection to Greco-Alexandrian or Egyptian architecture. It should therefore be seen as an expression of the assertion of the primacy of the empire capital in the intentions of the respective ruler or possibly confirmation of his occasional victorious war enterprise. I note for the benefit of scholars that RPC also does justice to the mistakes in the determination of this drachm expressed in previous repertories.