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Æ14 - Augustus SCAT
| Issuer | Cyrenaica (Cyrenaica and Crete) |
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| Year | 20 BC - 12 BC |
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| Reference(s) | I#945 |
| Obverse description | Bare head of Libya facing right, rendered in a somewhat archaic provincial style typical of Cyrenaican bronze coinage of the Augustan period. The portrait is set within a dotted border, with the hair loosely arranged and the facial features summarily executed in low relief. No legend is present in the field or periphery. The flan is irregular and the surfaces show characteristic patination consistent with provincial bronze production. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Augustus reorganized Cyrenaica into a combined senatorial province with Crete around 27 BC, ending a period of direct imperial administration that had followed Rome's annexation of the region as a bequest from Ptolemy Apion in 96 BC. Small civic bronzes of this type circulated alongside the formal Roman colonial coinage, filling the gap left by the near-total collapse of Ptolemaic monetary infrastructure. The SCAT reference places this piece within a tightly defined provincial sequence, though die linkage studies for Cyrenaican bronzes of this period remain incomplete.