Æ15 - Tiberius M M IVL VTI D D P P

Utica was among the oldest Phoenician settlements in North Africa — older than Carthage by ancient reckoning — and retained enough civic prestige under Rome to strike its own municipal bronze long after most African cities had lost that privilege. This issue falls within the joint administration of the duoviri, the abbreviated magistrate formula standard to Augustan and early Tiberian colonial coinage in the western provinces. RPC I 730 is a small module with a relatively short attestation window, minted before Tiberius consolidated imperial messaging and curtailed much of the autonomous municipal output across Africa Proconsularis.