Æ20 - Tiberius L RVTILIO PLANCO IIVIR, COR (in field)

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.