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Offline Darren L2

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Roman Tyche coin help
« on: August 12, 2019, 05:43:15 pm »
Hi guys, can anyone please help me identify the Roman Emperor on this Provincial coin or help with making out the lettering on either side.
Thanks for any replies 👍
Coin is 5.7 g and 19mm

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Re: Roman Tyche coin help
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2019, 01:28:36 am »

MESOPOTAMIA, Carrhae. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ 15mm (2.50 g, 11h). Laureate head right / Turreted and veiled bust of Tyche right. Cf. BMC 35

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Re: Roman Tyche coin help
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2019, 05:15:51 am »
Thank you very much Pekka, much appreciated 👍

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Re: Roman Tyche coin help
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2019, 10:45:39 am »
All of the examples that came up on ACSearch also referred to Carrhae, except this one:

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4636157

Triskeles Auctions Sale 22, Lot 357, Dec 15, 2017. Roman Provincial Coins
Mesopotamia, Edessa. Caracalla. A.D. 198-217. Æ (15 mm, 2.19 g, 6 h). IMP CAES M AVR AN[TONINVS P F AVΓ], laureate head of Caracalla right / COL AVR METROPOLI ANTONINIANA, Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right. Dandrow type 2, pl. 22, 3; SNG Hunterian 2490-1; SNG Righetti 2568. Dark brown patina with sandy deposits. The reverse legend remarkably clear. Very fine. This coin was formerly attributed to Carrhae based on a faulty interpretation of the reverse legend, but recent numismatic and papyrological evidence discovered at Dura-Europos and elsewhere in the middle Euphrates region points to a mint located at Edessa.

The Dandrow paper is :
Dandrow, E. 2016: ‘The Latin coins of Caracalla from Edessa in Osrhoene’, Numismatic Chronicle 176, 183–205.

If you do not subscribe to the NC, the offprint is available from Academia:
https://www.academia.edu/31013674/The_Numismatic_Chronicle_176_Offprint_The_Latin_Coins_of_Caracalla_from_Edessa_in_Osrhoene

BTW, Edward Dandrow's CV at the University of Central Florida also indicates that he has the following book in the works:
The Coinage of Carrhae. A study and catalogue of coins types, their historical context and iconography minted at Carrhae in the Roman province of Osrhoene.

A Google search reveals that another historian has used Dandrow's discussion of Edessa's status under Caracalla in "BARDAISAN OF EDESSA AND MEMORIES OF CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION IN THE NEAR EAST* by NATHANAEL ANDRADE, just as an example of how recent numismatic research may affect our historical narative.

Andrade's paper is available as a free download from the Wiley online library.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/2041-5370.12098

Interesting reading for a hot summer morning...

Eugene

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Re: Roman Tyche coin help
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2019, 01:28:19 pm »
Thank you Eugene, great piece of research there

 

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