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Æ18 - Elagabalus ΚΑΡ
| Issuer | Carrhae (Mesopotamia) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΚΑΡ (Translation: Carrhae[---]) |
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Carrhae's numismatic output under Elagabalus is sparse, and this bronze sits among the least-documented provincial issues of his reign. The city itself carried an outsized historical burden: it was at Carrhae in 53 BC that Crassus met his end at the hands of the Parthians, one of Rome's most catastrophic military defeats, and the site retained a fraught symbolic significance for any Roman power projecting eastward into Mesopotamia.
The ΚΑΡ ethnic — the abbreviated Greek rendering of the city name — places this firmly within the civic coinage tradition that persisted under Roman oversight well into the third century.