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Tetradrachm - Caracalla ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤΟϹ ΤΟ Γ
| Issuer | Tyre (Syria Phoenice) |
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| Year | 209-211 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | A large eagle stands facing, head turned sharply to the left, wings spread and partially open, perched upon a club or palm branch lying horizontally in the lower field. The bird is rendered in strong relief with carefully engraved feather detail on both wings. A dotted border frames the design. The Greek legend is distributed around the periphery, split between the left and right fields, with the consular numeral Γ at the lower right. |
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| Mint | Tyre Mint |
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Tyre retained the right to strike silver tetradrachms under Roman administration — a privilege jealously guarded and periodically contested — and continued producing them through Caracalla's reign using the distinctive Syrian standard rather than the imperial denarius weight. The tribunician power notation placing this issue in the 209–211 window coincides with Caracalla's joint rule alongside Geta, a co-emperorship that ended with Geta's murder in December 211 and the subsequent damnatio memoriae that erased his name from monuments across the empire.