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Æ18 - Augustus Q NAEVI SVRA A HIRTVL NIGER, IIVIR B (in field)
| Issuer | Colonia Augusta Buthrotum (Roman Provincial Mint, Achaea) |
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| Year | 27 BC - 14 AD |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure, identified tentatively as the Genius of the colony, facing right and rendered in a frontal or three-quarter stance typical of provincial Roman iconography. The figure appears robed and may hold attributes consistent with a genius representation, though wear limits precise identification. The magistrates' names and colonial abbreviation are inscribed in the field, divided around the central type. The legend distributed in the field records the names of the two duovirs responsible for the issue. |
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| Reverse lettering | Q NAEVI SVRA A HIRTVL NIGER, IIVIR B (in field) (Translation: Quintus Naevius Sura (and) Aulus Hirtuleius Niger, duovirs, Buthrotum) |
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Buthrotum — modern Butrint in Albania — was established as a Roman colony by Julius Caesar's decree, though the actual settlement was carried out under Augustus after 44 BC. The duoviri named on this issue, Q. Naevius Sura and A. Hirtulius Niger, were the senior magistrates of the colonial administration, responsible not only for local governance but for authorizing coin production in the name of the emperor. Provincial bronzes of this colony are genuinely scarce; Buthrotum was never a major economic center, and its output was modest.