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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Roman Provincial| > |Roman Mesopotamia| > RP78055
Caracalla, 28 January 198 - 8 April 217 A.D., Edessa, Mesopotamia
|Roman| |Mesopotamia|, |Caracalla,| |28| |January| |198| |-| |8| |April| |217| |A.D.,| |Edessa,| |Mesopotamia|, During the sole reign of Caracalla a city known as Colonia Metropolis Antoniniana Aurelia Alexandria in Mesopotamia (Osrhoene) issued a series of small bronze coins with Latin legends. These types were attributed by Eckhel to Carrhae and numismatists long perpetuated this attribution. New finds and papyrological evidence instead point to Edessa as the site of this colonia and the mint for these small bronze coins, struck after Caracalla deposed its king, Severus Abgar IX, in 212/213 A.D.
RP78055. Bronze AE 15, SNG Hunterian 2490 - 2491; BMC Arabia p. 86, 37; SNG Cop -, SNG Righetti -, VF, near black patina with red earthen highlighting, tight flan, light corrosion, Mesopotamia, Edessa (Urfa, Sanliurfa, Turkey) mint, weight 1.643g, maximum diameter 14.5mm, die axis 180o, 212 - 8 Apr 217 A.D.; obverse M AVR ANTONINVS P F AVG (or similar, clockwise from upper right), laureate head right; reverse COL AVR METROPOLI ANTONINIANA ΛEΛI (or similar, clockwise from upper right), veiled and turreted bust of Tyche right; from the Butte College Foundation, ex Lindgren; SOLD











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