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Æ25 - Elagabalus ΜΑΚ ΑΥΡ ΕΔΕϹϹ
| Issuer | Edessa (Mesopotamia) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Mint | Edessa, Mesopotamia, modern-day Urfa, Turkey |
| Mintage | ND (218-222) |
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Edessa's civic coinage under Elagabalus reflects the city's peculiar status: a nominally Roman-controlled client kingdom in Mesopotamia whose ruling Abgarid dynasty clung to local autonomy through the Severan period. The mint was active precisely because Rome tolerated — even encouraged — regional bronze issues to handle small-denomination exchange where imperial coinage rarely reached in sufficient volume.
Elagabalus himself had particular ties to the Syrian-Mesopotamian corridor, having been elevated to the purple at Raphana in 218 by troops loyal to his great-uncle Caracalla's memory.