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Æ26 - Macrinus ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Heraclea Salbace (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 217-218 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | Μ ΟΠ ϹΕΒΗ ΜΑΚΡΕΙΝΟϹ (Translation: Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Macrinus ruled for just fourteen months before being defeated by the forces of Elagabalus at the Battle of Antioch in June 218 AD — making any provincial issue bearing his name a product of an unusually compressed window. Heraclea Salbace, a minor Carian city in the Alabanda conventus, struck coins infrequently enough that its output under Macrinus is extremely limited in surviving examples.
The city's Greek ethnic legend ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΩΝ places it firmly within the Hellenized civic tradition of inland Caria, distinct from coastal mints with far greater output.