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Æ22 - Augustus PALIK PR
| Issuer | Cyrenaica (Cyrenaica and Crete) |
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| Year | 27 BC - 14 AD |
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| Weight | 5.9 g |
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| Obverse description | Uninscribed field bearing a two-line Latin legend disposed across the centre of the flan in large, boldly incised capital letters. The upper line reads IMP AVG and the lower TR POT, referencing the imperial titulature of Augustus — Imperator Augustus, Tribunicia Potestas. No portrait or figural device is present; the design is purely epigraphic. The coin is struck on an irregular flan with a somewhat uneven surface characteristic of provincial bronze coinage of the Augustan period. |
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| Reverse description | Plain field carrying a two-line Latin legend in large capital letters, arranged centrally across the flan. The upper line reads PALIK and the lower PR, identifying the issuing magistrate as Palikanus, praetor, the provincial official responsible for the emission of this bronze coinage in Cyrenaica. No figural or symbolic imagery accompanies the inscription. The flan is irregular and the surfaces show the characteristic roughness of locally produced provincial bronze. |
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Cyrenaica's civic bronze issues under Augustus reflect a province still finding its administrative footing — the region had been bequeathed to Rome by Ptolemy Apion in 96 BC but remained loosely governed until Augustus reorganized it, pairing it with Crete as a senatorial province around 27 BC. The magistrate name PALIK PR almost certainly records a local official whose appointment would have required Roman sanction, a small bureaucratic fact embedded in bronze.