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AR26 - Caracalla ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤΟϹ ΤΟ Δ
| Issuer | Rhesaena (Mesopotamia) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Eagle displayed, facing front with wings spread wide, head turned to the right, holding a wreath in its beak. Between the eagle's legs appears a rectangular object or tablet of uncertain iconographic significance, possibly a vexillum or altar. The composition follows the standard eagle type common to provincial coinage of Mesopotamia and the Roman East. The Greek legend ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤΟϹ ΤΟ Δ, referencing Caracalla's tribunician power and fourth consulship, is distributed around the field. |
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Rhesaena was a garrison city on the Khabur River in northern Mesopotamia, brought under Roman administrative control during Septimius Severus's Parthian campaigns of 197–198 AD. Its civic coinage is among the rarest of the Mesopotamian series — the mint was active for a narrow window, and output was limited by both the city's size and its distance from the major provincial monetary networks. The tribunician power fourth acclamation places this issue precisely within Caracalla's co-rule period with his father.