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A letter from Dorotheos to Papnouthios at Oxyrhynchus around AD 355 about buying gold solidi from an Alexandrian dealer. He urges Papnouthios to send the bronze small change at once, because a rumour about the gold levy for army recruits is driving up the price of solidi daily.
"Gold for the recruits" refers to the aurum tironicum, a tax paid in gold in place of supplying army recruits; "small change" (kerma) means low-value bronze coinage counted in myriads of denarii. The verso begins a separate letter addressed to Dorotheos, of which little survives.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter from Dorotheus to Papnuthis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Παπνουθίῳ Δωρόθεος χαίρειν. καλῶς ἔγραψάς μοι περὶ τῶν νομισματίων· ἐζήτησα γὰρ καὶ εὗρον τὴν ποσότητα παρὰ τῷ Ἀλεξανδρεῖ ἐκ δηναρίων μυριάδων ρλε[…] σπούδασον οὖν ἀπόστειλόν μοι τὸ κέρμα ἐν τῇ αὔριον, ἐπείπερ γέγονεν φήμη περὶ τοῦ χρυσοῦ τῶν τιρώνων καὶ πάντ…
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