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Æ30 - Septimius Severus ΑΔΡ ΠΕΤΡ ΜΗΤ
| Issuer | Petra (Arabia) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC V.3#68679 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | A tetrastyle or distyle temple facade depicted frontally, with two decorated columns supporting a pediment ornamented with two pellets; within the intercolumniation, the Tyche of Petra is seated left upon rocks, extending her right hand holding a small stele or object, and cradling a trophy in her left arm. The composition reflects the standard civic reverse type of Petra emphasising the city's divine patroness and metropolitan status. |
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Petra's civic coinage under Septimius Severus reflects the city's hard-won metropolitan status — the title ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΣ was granted by Severus himself, likely as reward for the city's loyalty during his campaign against Pescennius Niger in 193–194 AD. The designation carried real administrative weight and appears prominently on issues from this period precisely because it was new and worth advertising.
By the Severan period, Petra had long passed its Nabataean commercial peak, but the city retained enough civic prestige to maintain an active bronze coinage. The V.3 reference situates this within Spijkerman's corpus of Arabian city coinages.