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Æ14 - Ioel Large cross
| Issuer | Aksum |
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| Year | 590-615 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | (Translation: Ioel) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Ioel ruled during a period of sharp contraction in Aksumite trade dominance, as the Byzantine-Sasanian wars progressively strangled Red Sea commerce and disrupted the routes that had made Aksum wealthy enough to strike gold. Bronze issues like this one reflect that fiscal reality — gold coinage had effectively ceased, and the kingdom was minting in base metal for a local economy increasingly cut off from Mediterranean exchange networks.
The large cross type is Hahn's primary classification for this reign, with the 59a designation distinguishing die characteristics within a relatively small surviving corpus.