Mesopotamia. Rhesaena. Trajan Decius AD 249-251.
Bronze Æ

20 mm., 6,21 g.

AVT K Γ M KY TPA [ΔEKIOC] CEB, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / CEΠ KOΛ PHCAINHCIωN L III P, two busts of city goddesses facing one another, draped, veiled, and wearing turreted crowns, above, eagle with wings spread, head right, and wreath in beak, below, small altar.

nearly very fine

BMC Arabia, pg.131, 33-34.

L III P in the reverse legend refers to the Third Parthian Legion, a detachment of which was stationed at Rhesaena (BMC, p. cx) or veterans of which had been settled there