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Æ20 - Tiberius L RVTILIO PLANCO IIVIR, COR (in field)
| Issuer | Corinth (Achaea) |
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| Year | 14-37 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare laureate head of the emperor Tiberius facing right, rendered in the provincial style typical of Corinthian colonial coinage of the early Imperial period. The portrait is executed in low relief with broad facial features. The encircling legend naming the duovir Aulus Vatronius Labeo runs around the periphery in Latin capitals. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Corinth in the early imperial period was not the ancient Greek city — it was a Roman colony, refounded by Julius Caesar in 44 BC on the ruins of the city destroyed by Mummius in 146 BC. The magistrate named in this issue, L. Rutilius Plancus, held the duoviral office at Corinth during Tiberius's reign as one of the colony's two chief annually elected officials. Colonial bronzes of this type were struck locally to fill the gap left by Rome's near-total absence of small bronze coinage for provincial circulation.