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Æ22 - Elagabalus ΑΡϹΑΠΟΛΙϹ (retrograde)

Issuer Rabbath-Moba (Arabia)
Year 218-222
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Weight 8.64 g
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Obverse script Greek
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Reverse lettering ΑΡϹΑΠΟΛΙϹ (retrograde)
(Translation: Arsapolis)
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Rabbath-Moba, the Nabataean city absorbed into the Roman province of Arabia Petreaea after Trajan's annexation in 106 AD, produced a notably thin civic coinage under the Severan dynasty. The retrograde ethnic — ΑΡϹΑΠΟΛΙϹ running right-to-left — is not an engraver's error but a feature documented across multiple dies from this mint, suggesting either a local workshop convention or a puncheon applied without correction by a careless die-cutter who was never overruled.

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