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Æ24 - Nero EX CONSENSV D, C C I B
| Issuer | Buthrotum (Achaea) |
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| Year | 54-68 |
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| Reference(s) | I#1410 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A butting bull advancing to the right occupies the central field, depicted with lowered head in a charging posture, a type emblematic of colonial foundation imagery frequently employed on Roman provincial coinage. The Latin colonial legend is disposed in the exergue and around the periphery of the flan. The type alludes to the agrarian and sacrificial traditions of the Roman colony at Buthrotum. The flan surface shows the characteristic roughness of a hammered provincial bronze struck on an irregular planchet. |
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Buthrotum — modern Butrint in Albania — was a Roman colony established by Julius Caesar and later reinforced by Augustus, giving it an unusually direct line to imperial patronage. The EX CONSENSV formula appearing on this issue signals that the local senate formally petitioned for and received permission to strike; it was not a routine grant but a documented act of civic administration.
The abbreviation C C I B expands to Colonia Claudia Iulia Buthrotum, a designation that itself reflects earlier Julio-Claudian favor before Nero's reign.