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Æ28 - Septimius Severus
| Issuer | Rabbath-Moba (Arabia) |
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| Year | 209-211 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Emperor Septimius Severus facing right, rendered in the provincial style typical of Arabian civic coinage. The emperor's portrait displays the characteristic curled beard and hair of Severan iconography. A circular Greek legend surrounds the effigy, partially legible against the worn field. The strike is irregular, consistent with local provincial mint production of the early third century AD. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ Ϲ Λ Ϲ ϹΕΟΥ ΠΕΡ ϹΕΒ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Septimius Lucius S[---] Severus Pertinax Augustus) |
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Rabbath-Moba, the Nabataean city absorbed into the Roman province of Arabia Petraea after Trajan's annexation in 106 AD, struck civic bronzes under imperial portraiture as a assertion of its municipal status. Issues under Septimius Severus coincide with his eastern campaigns and the reorganization of provincial administration across the Levant — the city was actively cultivating Roman favor during a period when provincial minting rights carried real political weight.
The reference V.3#78218 places this within Spijkerman's corpus of Transjordanian city coinages, a series notorious for die-link complexity and small surviving populations per type.