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| Issuer | Pax Julia, City of |
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| Year | 27 BC - 14 AD |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Standing female figure, identified as Pax or a personification of the city, depicted in full-length facing left, holding a caduceus in her right hand and a cornucopia in her left. The encircling legend PAX IVLIA identifies both the depicted allegory and the issuing municipium. The figure is rendered in a simple provincial style with linear drapery, flanked by the divided inscription in the field. The reverse type directly references the city's name and its aspirations under Augustan peace. |
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Pax Julia — modern Beja in southern Portugal — was a Caesarean foundation, likely refounded or formally chartered under Augustus, which explains the civic bronze coinage struck in his name during this period. Provincial Spanish bronzes of this class were produced locally under municipal authority rather than imperial direction, filling a chronic shortage of small change that Rome's central mints showed little interest in addressing for remote Iberian towns.
RPC I 52A is a notably scarce entry in the series.