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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 1802000, member: 56859&quot;]Looks like I&#039;ve struck out, having exhausted all the resources I can think of-- wildwinds, coinproject, coinarchives, acsearch, Vcoins, Pecunem (and a few other closed auctions).</p><p><br /></p><p>Ardatirion-- the coin you might be remembering is probably this one, the only somewhat similar Edessa provincial from Pecunem this year. </p><p><img src="https://www.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/pecunem/004/image00247.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>MESOPOTAMIA, Edessa. Severus Alexander (222-235). Ae. </p><p><br /></p><p>Obv: AVT K M AΛEΞANΔPO. </p><p>Radiate, draped , and cuirassed bust left, raising hand.</p><p>Rev: MHTPO EΔECCHNωN. </p><p>Tyche seated left on rock outcropping, holding patera over alter; at feet, forepart of river-god Scyrtus swimming left.</p><p>Babelon, <i>Edessa</i> -; cf. BMC 77-8 (Elagabalus, for bust type); M&amp;M Deutschland 20, lot 940.</p><p>Babelon asserts that Edessa did not receive the title Metropolis until the reign of Severus Alexander, but the presence of the title on coins in the name of Elagabalus would seem to suggest otherwise. </p><p>Condition: Very fine.</p><p>Weight: 11.0 g.</p><p>Diameter: 26 mm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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