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AR27 - Caracalla ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤΟϹ ΤΟ Δ
| Issuer | Rhesaena (Mesopotamia) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Weight | 13.94 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Eagle displayed, facing front with wings spread horizontally, head turned to the right, holding a wreath in its beak — a standard Severan-era reverse type common to Mesopotamian and Syrian provincial issues. Between the eagle's legs appears a rectangular object or tabula of uncertain iconographic significance, possibly a vexillum or altar. The reverse legend ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤΟϹ ΤΟ Δ (Tribunicia Potestate, Consul for the fourth time) is distributed around the field in Greek characters, referencing Caracalla's tribunician and consular titles. The composition is framed within a beaded border, consistent with provincial hammered coinage of the Mesopotamian region. The die work displays the bold, somewhat provincial engraving style associated with the mint of Rhesaena. |
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Rhesaena was a Mesopotamian city whose civic coinage rights were granted under Roman provincial administration — a relatively late entrant into the provincial series, producing issues almost exclusively during the Severan period. The reverse legend referencing Caracalla's fourth consulship dates this piece precisely to 213 AD, one of the few hard chronological anchors available within this mint's compressed output. Rhesaena's entire known civic series spans barely two reigns, making any attribution from this mint scarcer than its individual survival rates suggest.