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As - Augustus C VAR RVF SEX IVL POL II VIR Q
| Issuer | Carthago Nova (Roman Colonial Mint) |
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| Year | 27 BC - 14 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare, laureate head of Augustus facing right, rendered in the idealized Julio-Claudian portrait style. The wreath of laurel leaves is finely detailed, resting upon neatly arranged hair. The surrounding circular Latin legend reads AVGVSTVS DIVI F, identifying the emperor as son of the deified Julius Caesar. The portrait is boldly struck within the irregular flan, with the legend distributed evenly around the periphery. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Carthago Nova — modern Cartagena — was one of the most productive silver-mining centers in the ancient world, and its colonial mint operated with unusual vigor under Augustus, issuing a long sequence of bronze denominations bearing the names of local magistrates. The duo-viral and quaestorian titles recorded on this piece reflect the Roman colonial administrative apparatus transplanted wholesale onto an Iberian city whose Barcid foundations Scipio Africanus had seized in a single afternoon in 209 BC.
The specific magistrate pairing here allows narrow attribution within the RPC I sequence, where Carthago Nova issues are among the best-documented of any Hispanic colonial mint.