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Æ28 - Augustus A ALLIENVS MARIVS II VIR
| Issuer | Tingi (Mauretania) |
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| Year | 27 BC - 14 AD |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse lettering | AVGVST (Translation: Augustus) |
| Reverse description | Facing bejaniform (two-faced) head of a deity, likely a local Mauretanian divinity or a representation of Oceanus, rendered in a bold, frontal composition. Flanking the central head on either side are prominent stalks of grain or ears of wheat, emphasizing the agricultural fertility of the region. The magistrates' names appear in the surrounding legend field. The design is characteristic of the municipal coinage struck at Tingi under Roman oversight, combining indigenous religious imagery with Latin epigraphy. |
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Tingi — modern Tangier — held a privileged position among Mauretanian cities, having backed Rome through the civil wars and been rewarded with the status of a municipium under Augustus. The duoviri named in this coin's legend, Allienvs and Marivs, were local magistrates exercising the kind of civic authority Rome deliberately exported to compliant provincial towns as a mechanism of Romanization. Their names suggest Italian settler or freedman ancestry grafted onto local administration.