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As - Augustus C C A TIB CLOD FLAVO PRAEF GERMAN L IVVENT LVPERCO II VIR
| Issuer | Caesaraugusta (Roman Colonial Mint) |
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| Year | 8 BC - 1 BC |
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| Weight | 14.47 g |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Augustus facing left, rendered in the dignified Julio-Claudian portrait style characteristic of provincial colonial coinage. The emperor's features are depicted with individualized realism, showing a slightly idealized profile with close-cropped hair. The encircling Latin legend reads AVGVSTVS DIVI F, identifying the subject as Augustus, son of the deified Julius Caesar. The legend is distributed around the periphery of the flan, partially following the irregular edge of the coin. The portrait occupies the central field with no additional devices. |
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| Obverse lettering | AVGVSTVS DIVI F |
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Caesaraugusta — modern Zaragoza — was refounded as a Roman colony around 14 BC, settled largely by veterans of the Cantabrian Wars, and almost immediately began issuing an ambitious civic bronze coinage. The duoviri named on this as, Tiberius Clodius Flavus and Lucius Iuventius Lupercus, held their magistracy for the second time (II VIR), a detail that allows rough sequencing within the colony's early series. The abbreviation C C A — Colonia Caesar Augusta — appears on issues across this period as the colony asserted its identity.