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Triassaria - Caracalla AΔPIANOΠOΛEITWN/Cuirassed Bust with Shield
| Issuer | Hadrianopolis (Thracia) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Caracalla facing right, with a round shield visible at the lower left of the effigy. The emperor is depicted in military attire, the cuirass decorated with pteryges visible at the shoulder. The Greek imperial titulature legend encircles the bust along the periphery of the flan, reading ΑΥΤ Μ ΑΥΡΗ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟΣ. The flan is irregular and shows characteristic provincial mint workmanship. |
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| Reverse description | A standing draped female figure, facing left, occupies the central field of the reverse. She appears to hold an attribute in her extended right hand, possibly a patera or wreath, while her left arm is lowered at her side. The figure is rendered in the provincial Greek artistic style typical of Thracian civic coinage of the Severan period. The ethnic legend AΔPIANOΠOΛEITWN curves around the upper periphery of the flan, identifying the issuing city of Hadrianopolis. |
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Hadrianopolis — modern Edirne in northwestern Turkey — was refounded by Hadrian around 125 AD on the site of the Thracian settlement of Uskudama, and the city's mint remained active through the Severan dynasty, producing a steady stream of civic bronzes whose attribution still challenges specialists. The Varbanov reference here is comparative rather than exact, which is typical for provincial issues from this mint where die combinations multiply the known varieties well beyond what catalogs have fully documented.
The triassarion denomination — equivalent to three asses in the Greek provincial system — was among the heavier bronze fractions in regular Thracian civic circulation during Caracalla's reign.