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Diassarion - Severus Alexander ΜΗΤ ΚΟΛ ΕΔΕϹϹΗΝωΝ
| Issuer | Edessa (Mesopotamia) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Tyche of Edessa seated left upon a throne or rocky outcrop, wearing a turreted crown and holding a sceptre or patera in her right hand. Beneath her feet or throne, the river god Skirtos (Daisan) is depicted as a swimming or reclining figure, symbolising the river flowing through Edessa. A star or astral symbol appears in the upper field to the left. The reverse legend encircles the scene in two lines, identifying Edessa as a metropolis and Roman colony. |
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Edessa occupied an awkward geopolitical position during the reign of Severus Alexander — nominally a Roman colonia since Caracalla's reorganization of the region, yet deeply embedded in Aramaic cultural and commercial networks that ran east toward Parthia and Sasanian Persia. The city's colonial status is what licensed the ΜΗΤ ΚΟΛ title on the legend, a designation Edessa had only recently acquired and clearly still advertised with some civic pride.
Severus Alexander's assassination in 235 by troops loyal to Maximinus Thrax ended this mint's imperial coinage abruptly. Edessa would fall to Shapur I within two decades.