Æ34 - Tiberius

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.