Æ26 - Augustus M (AC)CIVS M (C)X FLAME AVG

Halaesa, a small coastal city on Sicily's northern shore, was granted the status of a free city by Rome in the late Republican period — a privilege it leveraged to issue its own civic bronze coinage well into the Augustan age. The magistrate name partially preserved in the legend, read as M. Accius and referencing a local flamen Augustalis, places this piece within the earliest wave of the imperial cult's institutionalization in the western provinces, when newly appointed flamines were commemorated on local civic issues as a demonstration of loyalty.