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Æ17 - Elagabalus PETA COΛNIA (retrograde)
| Issuer | Petra (Arabia) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
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| Diameter | 17 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Heracles seated left upon a rocky outcrop, his right hand extended forward in an offering gesture, with a trophy or club resting over his left shoulder. The figure is rendered in the Hellenistic tradition common to Nabataean provincial coinage, reflecting the city of Petra's artistic heritage. The colonial legend appears in retrograde around the type, affirming Petra's status as a Roman colony. |
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Petra's municipal coinage under Elagabalus is scarce at the best of times, but examples carrying the retrograde COΛNIA legend represent either a deliberate workshop affectation or, more likely, a die-cutter's uncorrected error — the latter being consistent with the erratic quality control documented across Petraean bronzes of this period. The city had held colonial status since Caracalla's grant, and civic pride in that distinction shows up repeatedly in the legend emphasis, even when the engraver got it backwards.