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Æ25 - Septimius Severus ΡΑΒΒΑΘΜωΒΗ ΑΡΗϹ
| Issuer | Rabbath-Moba (Arabia) |
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| Year | 209-211 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC V.3#68213 |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ Λ ϹΕΠ(Τ) ϹΕΟΥΗΡΟϹ ϹΕΒ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Augustus) |
| Reverse description | Standing cult statue of Ares facing, depicted frontally and rendered in a hieratic, archaic style upon a prominent two-tiered rectangular base typical of provincial Syrian and Arabian coinage. The god holds a sword extended in his right hand and carries a spear and shield in his left. The figure is shown in full martial panoply, reflecting the local veneration of Ares as a city deity of Rabbath-Moba. The Greek legend naming the city and the deity is distributed across the field around the statue. |
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Rabbath-Moba — Roman Rabbathmoba, modern Ar-Rabba in Jordan — was a minor Nabataean settlement absorbed into the province of Arabia Petraea after Trajan's annexation in 106 AD. It gained civic status and the right to strike bronze coinage relatively late, and issues under Septimius Severus represent some of the earliest and scarcest of its civic production. The city never achieved the output volume of nearby Bostra or Petra, which is why these bronzes survive in small numbers even in major reference collections.