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AR19 - Caracalla ΔΗΜ (Ρ) Ε (Ο) ΥΠΑ Γ
| Issuer | Petra (Arabia) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC V.3#68657 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Tyche, the civic goddess of Petra, depicted standing to the left in full figure. In her extended right hand she holds a small stele or similar object, while her left hand bears a trophy. The composition reflects the Nabataean-Roman artistic tradition typical of provincial coinage from Petra. A Greek legend encircles the design in the field. |
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Petra's civic coinage under Caracalla reflects the city's absorption into the province of Arabia Nerva Traiana in 106 AD, after which local mints operated under Roman provincial authority while retaining Greek-language legends — a deliberate nod to the Hellenized commercial culture that had made Nabataean Petra wealthy long before Roman annexation. The lettering sequence in this issue's legend encodes the tribunician and consular dating conventions standard to provincial struck under the joint reign and then sole rule of Caracalla between 198 and 217.