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Æ22 - Severus Alexander COLONIA BOSTRA (or BOSTBA, sic)
| Issuer | Mint of Bostra (Arabia) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Weight | 6.38 g |
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| Obverse description | Diademed and draped bust of Julia Mamaea Augusta facing right, her hair elaborately coiffed and bound with a diadem. The effigy is rendered in the typical provincial style of the Severan period, with the drapery indicated across the truncation. The circumferential Latin legend identifies the empress by her full titulature. |
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| Mintage | ND (222-235) |
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Bostra served as the capital of Roman Arabia Petraea after Trajan's annexation of the Nabataean kingdom in 106 AD, and its civic mint produced bronze coinage sporadically across the Severan dynasty. The garbled legend BOSTBA — a clear engraver's error for BOSTRA — occurs on a documented subset of this type, the kind of slip that passed quality control in a provincial workshop operating far from central oversight.