As - Augustus

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.