Æ16 - Augustus Athlete running right

Corinth's colonial coinage under Augustus occupies an unusual administrative position — the city had been refounded as a Roman colony by Julius Caesar in 44 BC, wiping out the Greek civic tradition and replacing it with a Latin-speaking settler population. These bronze issues served the local economy of Colonia Laus Iulia Corinthiensis, not a Greek polis. The Isthmian Games, revived alongside the colony, likely drove demand for small bronze in the region during exactly this period.

RPC I 1135b is distinguished from the closely related 1135a by magistrate name, a distinction resolved through die study rather than visual difference alone.