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AR26 - Caracalla ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤΟϹ ΤΟ Δ
| Issuer | Edessa (Mesopotamia) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Diameter | 26 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΥ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ Ϲ |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Edessa's civic coinage under Caracalla reflects the city's peculiar political position — a client kingdom nominally absorbed into the Roman provincial system after Septimius Severus's Mesopotamian campaigns of 195–199 AD, yet still operating with enough local autonomy to strike its own billon issues. The legend ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤΟϹ ΤΟ Δ translates Caracalla's tribunician and consular titles into Greek, a practice common to eastern mints asserting Roman loyalty while serving a Greek-speaking population.
Caracalla held the consulship for the fourth time in 215 AD, which pins this specific titulature to a narrow window.