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Æ28 - Severus Alexander ΜΗΤ ΚΟΛ ΕΔΕϹϹΗΝωΝ
| Issuer | Edessa (Mesopotamia) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΜΗΤ ΚΟΛ ΕΔΕϹϹΗΝωΝ |
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Edessa occupied a peculiar position in the Roman imperial system — nominally absorbed into the province of Mesopotamia under Caracalla in 216 AD, yet retaining enough civic identity to strike its own bronze coinage under Severus Alexander. The city's Abgarid dynasty had been deposed only years before this coin was minted, and the colonial title reflected in the legend was itself a Roman imposition, rebranding a Parthian-influenced Syriac city as a Latin colony to project administrative control over a notoriously unstable frontier region.