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Æ24 - Augustus COL IVL FEL GEM LVSTRA
| Issuer | Lystra |
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| Year | 27 BC - 14 AD |
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| Reference(s) | RPC Online I#3539, SNG von Aulock#5403 |
| Obverse description | Bare or lightly laureate head of Augustus facing left, rendered in a naturalistic portrait style typical of early Julio-Claudian provincial coinage. The effigy displays the emperor's characteristic features — a strong brow, aquiline nose, and short hair with strands swept forward — set within a beaded border. The legend IMPE AVGVSTI is disposed in the field to the left of the portrait, running vertically. The flan is irregular, as is common for struck bronzes of this Pisidian colonial mint. |
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| Obverse lettering | IMPE AVGVSTI (Translation: Emperor Augustus) |
| Reverse description | A military colonist ploughing left, guiding a yoke of two oxen, a type emblematic of Roman colonial foundation imagery and the ritual act of marking out a colony's sacred boundary (the sulcus primigenius). The colonial legend is arranged in three lines above and below the type: COL IVL FEL GEM in the upper field and LYSTRA beneath, identifying the issuing city as Colonia Iulia Felix Gemina Lustra. The design is bold and deeply struck, though somewhat crude in execution, consistent with the provincial mint style of Pisidian Lystra under Augustus. |
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