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AR26 - Macrinus ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤΟϹ
| Issuer | Edessa (Mesopotamia) |
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| Year | 217-218 |
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| Weight | 13.14 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Macrinus ruled for just fourteen months before being overthrown by the forces backing the teenage Elagabalus in June 218 AD, making any coin struck in his name from a provincial mint a product of an exceptionally compressed window. Edessa, the capital of Osrhoene, held a complicated relationship with Rome — nominally a client kingdom until Caracalla absorbed it outright in 214 AD, the city's mint continued producing Greek-legend bronzes and billon issues under Roman imperial authority.
The ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤΟϹ legend references tribunician power and the consulship, titulature Macrinus adopted rapidly to legitimize a reign that began with his own soldiers murdering Caracalla on a road near Carrhae — not far from Edessa itself.