Æ26 - Elagabalus ΚΟΛ ΑΝΤ ... ΕΔΕϹϹΑ

Edessa occupied a uniquely precarious position during Elagabalus's reign — nominally under Roman authority but retaining its Abgarid client dynasty until Caracalla had lured Abgar X to Rome and imprisoned him in 216 AD, just two years before this coin was struck. The city was still processing that dynastic rupture when this bronze entered circulation, its civic coinage now anchored entirely to the Roman imperial portrait rather than any local king.