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Æ16 - Caracalla III C, P S
| Issuer | Rhesaena (Mesopotamia) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Weight | 4.75 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Caracalla or Elagabalus facing right, seen from the front, rendered in the provincial style typical of Mesopotamian civic coinage. The emperor's effigy displays the characteristic military dress of the Severan period. A partial Greek legend runs along the outer field, partially visible despite heavy wear. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤΟΚ ΑΝΤωΝ |
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Rhesaena sat on the Khabur River in northern Mesopotamia, a garrison town that gained colonial status under Septimius Severus during his Parthian campaigns of 197–198 AD. The local bronze coinage — of which this is a product — was struck to serve a military economy, not a civilian one. Caracalla's third consulship dates the issue to 208 AD at the earliest, narrowing a reign-long attribution considerably.
The mint is poorly documented, and die studies remain incomplete. Known specimens are few enough that new examples still contribute meaningfully to scholarship on the series.