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Æ34 - Tiberius
| Issuer | Emerita |
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| Year | 14-37 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A schematic frontal depiction of a Roman camp gateway (porta praetoria), shown as a monumental arched structure with a central domed arch flanked by two rectangular towers, rendered in the bold, simplified style characteristic of Emeritan provincial bronzes. The architectural motif likely references the colonial foundations of Augusta Emerita. The legend AVGVSTA EMERITA is distributed in the field around the gateway, within a dotted border. |
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Emerita Augusta — modern Mérida — was founded around 25 BC as a settlement for veterans of the Cantabrian Wars, and its colonial mint was among the most active in Hispania during the Julio-Claudian period. This issue belongs to a civic bronze series produced under Tiberius, when local magistrates still held authority to authorize bronze coinage, a practice Rome tolerated in western provincial cities well into the first century AD before systematically curtailing it under later emperors.
RPC I 23 is assigned to the duoviri series of Emerita, where the names of the presiding magistrates determined the specific emission — making die matches against other known specimens the primary tool for sequencing these issues within the reign.