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Roman Provincial: Mesopotamia-Hatra


Anonymous issue during time of Hadrian, Orichalcum AE23, 117-138, Mesopotamia-Hatra
City name in Aramaic at right (off flan)
Radiate, draped bust of Shamash (the Sun) right
S C
Legend retrograde, eagle with spread wings above, all in laurel wreath of six bunches of leaves, terminating in pellet
23mm x 25mm, 12.19g
SNG Cop. 232; Slocum, Another look at the Coins of Hatra, in ANSMN 22 (1977), Series 1; Walker, The Coins of Hatra, NumChron 1958, Series A