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Æ20 - Augustus
| Issuer | Emerita |
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| Year | 1 BC - 14 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Augustus facing right, rendered in the idealized portrait style characteristic of early Imperial Roman provincial coinage. The legend PERM CAES AVG is distributed around the periphery of the flan, indicating the coin was struck by permission of Caesar Augustus. The portrait displays fine detail in the laurel wreath, with the emperor's features exhibiting a youthful, classical treatment typical of Augustan-era imagery. |
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| Obverse lettering | PERM CAES AVG (Translation: By permission of Caesar Augustus) |
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Emerita Augusta — modern Mérida in Spain — was founded around 25 BC to settle veterans of the Cantabrian Wars, the grinding northwestern campaigns that effectively completed Rome's conquest of Iberia. The colony held the right to strike local bronze, and this issue belongs to that civic coinage produced under Augustus's long reign. RPC I 14 is a well-documented type, but colonial bronzes from Emerita circulated hard in a frontier veteran community and survivors in any decent state of preservation are genuinely scarce.