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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Roman Provincial| > |Roman Mesopotamia| > RP88152
Severus Alexander and Julia Mamaea, 13 March 222 - March 235 A.D., Edessa, Mesopotamia
|Roman| |Mesopotamia|, |Severus| |Alexander| |and| |Julia| |Mamaea,| |13| |March| |222| |-| |March| |235| |A.D.,| |Edessa,| |Mesopotamia|, Edessa is the historical name of an Assyrian town in northern Mesopotamia, refounded on an ancient site by Seleucus I Nicator. Caracalla was assassinated in Edessa in 217 and Valerian was captured by Shapur I at Edessa in 260.

In 230, the Persian King Ardashir I invaded Mesopotamia. Alexander attempted to make peace but was rebuffed. He and his mother Julia Mamaea made their headquarters at Antioch and accompanied the legions. The Roman counterattack was defeated in 232 but both sides suffered heavy losses and agreed to a truce. In 233, Severus Alexander celebrated a triumph in Rome to observe his "victory."
RP88152. Bronze tetrassarion, Lindgren-Kovacs A2584A (same dies); BMC Arabia p. 109, 115; SNG Cop 219; Babelon Edessa 79 ff. var. (obv. leg.), F, tight flan, a little rough and porous, Mesopotamia, Edessa (Urfa, Sanliurfa, Turkey) mint, weight 16.145g, maximum diameter 27.7mm, die axis 0o, obverse AYT K M A C AΛEΞANΔPOC CEB IOYΛ MAMEAC, Confronted draped busts of Severus Alexander on left, facing right, laureate and Julia Mamaea, on right, facing left, wearing stephane; reverse MHT KOΛ EΔECCHNΩN, Tyche seated left on low seat set on rocks, turreted, holding small temple in extended right hand, flaming altar before her on left, small figure of Aquarius standing left above her head, river-god swimming left below, four stars around in field; SOLD










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