Tingi — modern Tangier — was one of the few Mauretanian cities granted the right to strike bronze coinage under Roman magistrates during the late Republican period. The names in this legend, L. Baebius and M. Clodius, represent locally appointed aediles functioning within a Roman civic framework imposed on a Berber city still nominally independent. This arrangement collapsed entirely when Augustus reorganized the region after 27 BC, ending local magistrate coinage at Tingi almost immediately.
Tingi — modern Tangier — was one of the few Mauretanian cities granted the right to strike bronze coinage under Roman magistrates during the late Republican period. The names in this legend, L. Baebius and M. Clodius, represent locally appointed aediles functioning within a Roman civic framework imposed on a Berber city still nominally independent. This arrangement collapsed entirely when Augustus reorganized the region after 27 BC, ending local magistrate coinage at Tingi almost immediately.