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As - Augustus
| Issuer | Italica |
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| Year | 27 BC - 14 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of the Genius Populi Romani facing left, depicted in draped garb and wearing a modius or turreted crown on the head. The Genius holds a cornucopia in the left arm, symbolising abundance, and extends the right hand forward, likely holding a patera or offering vessel. The abbreviated Latin legend GEN POP ROM is disposed around the field, identifying the divine personification. The dotted border and the broad, flat flan are characteristic of Augustan-era municipal bronze coinage from Hispania. |
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| Mint | Italica |
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Italica, founded by Scipio Africanus in 206 BC as a settlement for wounded Italian veterans after the Iberian campaigns, was among the earliest Roman colonies in Hispania — and one of the first to produce civic bronze coinage in Augustus's name. The town held particular sentimental weight for Rome; it would later produce two emperors, Trajan and Hadrian, though that was still a century off. Provincial aes coinage of this type circulated locally without the backing of the central mint, struck under municipal authority as a practical solution to the chronic shortage of small bronze in the western provinces.