Æ19 - Augustus ΛΙΒΙΑΝ ΖΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ ΚΟΡΩΝΟϹ

Issued under the magistrate Coronus — whose name appears in the genitive on the coin — this piece belongs to the civic bronze coinage that Smyrna struck under Augustus while simultaneously cultivating an aggressive imperial cult program. Smyrna had lobbied Rome as early as 195 BC for permission to build a temple to the city of Rome, and under Augustus the city leveraged that long institutional relationship to secure exceptional minting privileges within the Smyrnaean conventus.

RPC I 2469 is among the types linking Livia's name directly to Augustan civic issues, reflecting her unusually prominent public role in the eastern provinces well before her formal deification under Claudius.