Æ20 - Tiberius 𐤋𐤐𐤒𐤉

Leptis Magna retained the right to strike its own bronze coinage well into the imperial period, an unusual privilege reflecting the city's deep integration into Roman administrative structures while preserving its Punic civic identity. The reverse inscription in Neo-Punic script — the city's own name rendered in its ancestral language — places this coin at the intersection of two worlds: a Roman emperor on one face, a Phoenician-descended city asserting its linguistic heritage on the other. This bilingual numismatic culture persisted at Leptis longer than at almost any other North African mint.