Æ15 - Augustus/Tiberius 𐤅𐤉‬𐤏‬𐤕

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.