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Æ31 - Severus Alexander ΜΗ ΚΟ ΕΔΕϹϹΗΝωΝ
| Issuer | Edessa (Mesopotamia) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Weight | 17.29 g |
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| Reverse description | The Tyche of Edessa is depicted seated left upon a rocky eminence, holding ears of corn in her extended hand, symbolising the city's prosperity. A lighted altar is placed at her feet, and a star appears in the field on either side of the central figure. In the exergue, a river god — likely the Daisan (Skirtos) — swims to the left, his body rendered in the conventional manner of personified waterways on provincial bronze coinage. The reverse legend naming the Edessenes runs around the periphery of the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (222-235) |
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Edessa occupied a uniquely ambiguous position in Roman imperial geography — technically a client kingdom under the Abgarid dynasty until Caracalla abolished it outright in 214 AD, converting it into a Roman colonia. The city's civic coinage under Severus Alexander reflects that recently imposed colonial status, struck by a community still negotiating its identity barely a decade after losing its royal house. The magistrate abbreviations encoded in the legend remain only partially resolved by modern scholarship.