Æ24 - Tiberius L A FAVSTVS D C BASSVS IIVIR P P D D

Issued under the duoviri Lucius Aemilius Faustus and Gaius Clodius Bassus, this municipal bronze belongs to the civic coinage of Carthage refounded as a Roman colony by Augustus in 29 BC — one of the most deliberately symbolic acts of Augustan urban policy, reclaiming a site that had been ritually cursed after its destruction in 146 BC. The duoviri quinquennales who authorized such issues held the highest magistracy in the colonial administration, their names on the coin functioning as a public record of civic office rather than mere mint attribution.

Carthage produced no coinage after Caligula ended provincial civic issues in Africa, making Tiberian-era municipal bronzes the last generation of locally authorized coinage from the colony for centuries.