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Æ - Augustus Asia Province unknown mint
| Issuer | Rome › Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 27 BC - 14 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Augustus facing right, rendered in the idealized Hellenistic portrait style characteristic of eastern provincial mints. The effigy displays short, rendered hair swept forward over the brow in the Augustan manner. The legend CAESAR appears in Latin characters within the field to the left of the portrait. The flan is irregular and the surfaces exhibit heavy patination consistent with long burial, with green and brown encrustation obscuring fine detail. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Provincial bronze coinage struck under Augustus in Asia varied enormously by city, magistrate, and local authorization — Rome delegated bronze production to provincial authorities, reserving precious metal for imperial mints. Without a confirmed mint attribution, this piece sits in a crowded field of Asian civic issues produced under the broad umbrella of Augustan reorganization of the eastern provinces following Actium in 31 BC. Many such coins were struck to honor the new order while asserting a degree of local identity that Rome quietly tolerated.
Attribution efforts are ongoing through die studies, particularly work linking magistrate names to known civic series from Pergamon, Ephesus, and Sardis.