Æ26 - Severus Alexander ΜΗΤ ΚΟΛ ΕΔΕϹϹΗΝωΝ

Edessa occupied a position of acute strategic sensitivity during Severus Alexander's reign — the city sat on the Roman-Parthian frontier and had only recently been refounded as a Roman colony under Caracalla, which explains the colonial title in the legend. Its mint output under Severus Alexander reflects a city still asserting its new Roman municipal identity while Persian Sasanian pressure to the east was already beginning to replace the Parthian threat it had long been accustomed to managing.