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As - Augustus BILBILIS
| Issuer | Bilbilis |
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| Year | 27 BC - 14 AD |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | BILBILIS |
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Bilbilis, a municipium in the upper Ebro valley of Hispania Tarraconensis, was granted the right to strike bronze coinage under Augustus as part of a broader Roman policy of encouraging local civic identity through controlled minting. The town is best known today as the birthplace of Martial, though the poet was born roughly half a century after these coins first circulated. Local Iberian script on earlier Bilbilis issues had already given way entirely to Latin by this period, a linguistic transition the coinage itself documents.
RPC I 389 is one of several magistrate issues from the city, with the named duoviri serving as the issuing authority rather than any imperial mint.