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| Issuer | Laelia (Hispanic mint) |
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| Year | 31 BC - 27 BC |
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| Value | 1 As |
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| Reverse description | Two palm fronds arranged to the left within the field, their fronds extending diagonally across the flan in a decorative composition. The design is enclosed within a wreath border, with the Latin legend LAELIA inscribed in the central field identifying the issuing community. |
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| Reverse lettering | LAELIA |
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Laelia was a small settlement in the conventus Hispalensis, and its civic coinage — struck during the narrow window between Actium and Augustus's formal assumption of the principate — reflects the administrative normalization of western Hispania under the new order. Local Spanish mints were granted limited coining rights by Rome as a practical measure, not a concession; bronze was needed for local transactions that Roman official issues couldn't efficiently supply at distance.
RPC I 53B is distinguished from the related 53A by its specific obverse die grouping, a distinction that matters for collectors working the Hispanic provincial series seriously.