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Æ26 - Tiberius AETERNITATI AVGVSTAE
| Issuer | Augusta Emerita (Roman Colonial Mint) |
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| Year | 14-37 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Radiate or laureate bare head of Divus Augustus facing left, rendered in a provincial style characteristic of the Emerita mint under Tiberius. The portrait is modestly detailed with a strong profile, the neck truncation visible at the lower field. A circular Latin legend surrounds the effigy, reading DIVVS AVGVSTVS PATER, identifying the deified Augustus as Father of the Nation. The flan is irregular in shape, as typical of provincial hammered coinage of this period. |
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| Mintage | ND (14-37) |
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Augusta Emerita — modern Mérida in Spain — was founded in 25 BC as a settlement for veterans of the Cantabrian Wars, and its colonial mint was among the most prolific in the western provinces during the Julio-Claudian period. This issue belongs to the reign of Tiberius, a ruler who famously refused the title of *pater patriae* and showed consistent discomfort with the divine honors being pressed on him by the Senate — which makes the reverse legend's invocation of eternal Augustan power a pointed piece of provincial flattery he almost certainly would have found distasteful.