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Æ25 - Augustus priest ploughing
| Issuer | Emerita Augusta (Roman Colonial Mint) |
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| Year | 1 BC - 14 AD |
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| Diameter | 25 mm |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Augustus facing right, rendered in the provincial style with broad facial features and a short beard visible on some specimens. The portrait is set within a circular border, surrounded by the Latin legend reading PERM IMP CAESARIS AVG P P distributed around the periphery. The effigy displays the characteristic Augustan physiognomy adapted for colonial provincial coinage. The flan is irregular, as typical of hammered issues from the Emerita Augusta mint. |
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| Obverse lettering | PERM IMP CAESARIS AVG P P (Translation: By permission of the emperor caesar August, father of the Nation) |
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Emerita Augusta — modern Mérida in Spain — was founded around 25 BC to settle veterans of the Cantabrian Wars, and its colonial mint operated under Augustus with a striking degree of civic pride. The ploughing scene on issues like this one references the ritual of *sulcus primigenius*, the ceremonial furrow ploughed at a colony's founding to consecrate its boundaries. Emerita was among the most prolific of the Augustan colonial mints in Hispania, and RPC I 13 is well-documented enough that die studies have been attempted, though the series still has unresolved attribution questions around the duoviri whose names appear on related issues.