AR26 - Caracalla ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤΟϹ ΤΟ Δ

Rhesaena was a Mesopotamian city that gained colonial status under the Severans, likely as part of the administrative consolidation of the province established after Septimius Severus's Parthian campaigns of 197–198 AD. Its civic coinage is rare by any measure — the mint produced issues for a narrow window under Caracalla, and the series is poorly represented in major collections. The Greek magistrate formula on this type reflects the hybrid administrative culture of the region, Roman imperium dressed in Hellenistic municipal convention.