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Æ19 - Tiberius ΑΥΓΟΥ ωΝ
| Issuer | Augusta (Cilicia) |
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| Year | 14-37 |
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| Weight | 4.51 g |
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| Reverse description | Veiled Tyche of the city seated left upon a throne or high-backed chair, holding ears of corn in her extended hand as an emblem of civic prosperity. Before her in the lower field stands or reclines a river god, personifying the local waterway and serving as a symbol of the city's geographic identity. The composition is characteristic of Cilician civic reverses under the Julio-Claudian dynasty, with the legend ΑΥΓΟΥΣΙΩΝ distributed in the surrounding field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΥΓΟΥΣΙΩΝ |
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Augusta in Cilicia was a Roman colony — almost certainly the same settlement known earlier as Diocaesarea — whose civic coinage under Tiberius reflects the standard arrangement of a compliant provincial city minting bronze for local exchange. RPC I 4003 is sparsely represented in major collections, which may point to a limited original issue rather than attrition through circulation. The colony's precise administrative relationship to the broader Cilician koinon during the Julio-Claudian period remains debated.