Æ14 - Commodus ] ΑΥΡ Κ Λ[ (retrograde, Α with curved crossbar)

Carrhae's civic bronze issues under Commodus are poorly documented, and the retrograde legend on this piece — with its non-standard alpha carrying a curved crossbar — points to a local engraver working outside the mainstream die-cutting tradition. Whether the retrograde cutting was error or convention at this particular workshop is unresolved; parallels from the same city show inconsistency across the series. Carrhae itself had been a Roman client city since Trajan's eastern campaigns, though it never shed its reputation as the site of Crassus's catastrophic defeat in 53 BC.