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Æ15 - Augustus/Tiberius 𐤅𐤉𐤏𐤕
| Issuer | Oea (Africa Proconsularis) |
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| Year | 27 BC - 37 AD |
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| Currency | Denarius (49 BC to AD 215) |
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| Reverse description | A lyre (kithara) rendered in profile, centrally positioned within the field, with clearly delineated strings and a rounded resonating body at the base. Two curved arms extend upward and are joined by a crossbar, faithfully reproducing the form of the ancient stringed instrument. Flanking the lyre in the field are Phoenician characters forming the city ethnicon of Oea. The reverse has a dotted border. The design is consistent with the civic coinage of Oea under the Julio-Claudian period. |
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| Mintage | ND (27 BC - 37 AD) |
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Oea — modern Tripoli — was one of three Phoenician trading settlements that gave the Tripolitana region its name, and its coins reflect a community still negotiating between Punic cultural identity and Roman administrative reality. This bronze was struck under the joint authority implied by the Augustus/Tiberius pairing, most plausibly during the later part of that range when Tiberius held tribunician power as designated successor. The city retained Punic script on its coinage long after Latin had become the administrative norm elsewhere in Africa Proconsularis.