Issued under the duoviri of Roman Corinth during the reign of Tiberius, this coin names L. Arrius Peregrinus as one of the presiding magistrates — a local elite whose office carried both administrative and ceremonial weight in a colony that Julius Caesar had refounded in 44 BC, nearly a century before this piece was struck. The colonial title Gent(is) Iuli(ae) — invoking descent from the Julian gens — was a deliberate assertion of the colony's Caesarian origins at a moment when Tiberius himself was growing increasingly remote from public life, having withdrawn to Capri in 27 AD.
Issued under the duoviri of Roman Corinth during the reign of Tiberius, this coin names L. Arrius Peregrinus as one of the presiding magistrates — a local elite whose office carried both administrative and ceremonial weight in a colony that Julius Caesar had refounded in 44 BC, nearly a century before this piece was struck. The colonial title Gent(is) Iuli(ae) — invoking descent from the Julian gens — was a deliberate assertion of the colony's Caesarian origins at a moment when Tiberius himself was growing increasingly remote from public life, having withdrawn to Capri in 27 AD.