Cartenna, a coastal settlement west of Caesarea in Mauretania, struck civic bronze coinage under Augustus as part of a broader pattern of municipia in the western provinces asserting local identity through coin production — a practice Augustus tacitly encouraged as a mechanism of Romanization without the expense of imperial mint involvement. The magistrate names preserved in the legend are among the few epigraphic traces of Cartenna's civic administration from this period.
Cartenna, a coastal settlement west of Caesarea in Mauretania, struck civic bronze coinage under Augustus as part of a broader pattern of municipia in the western provinces asserting local identity through coin production — a practice Augustus tacitly encouraged as a mechanism of Romanization without the expense of imperial mint involvement. The magistrate names preserved in the legend are among the few epigraphic traces of Cartenna's civic administration from this period.