AR30 - Elagabalus ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤΟϹ (Ο) Β

Edessa's civic coinage under Elagabalus reflects the city's peculiar position in 219 AD — nominally Roman, but operating under the Abgarid dynasty, whose king Abgar X was still nominally on the throne as a Roman client. The Greek tribunician legend places this squarely in Elagabalus's second consulship, allowing a precise date within his chaotic four-year reign.

Billon output from Edessa during this period is notoriously inconsistent in alloy quality, a function of provincial minting practices rather than any central policy.