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As - Augustus CAESARAVGVSTA C ALLIARIO T VERRIO II VIR
| Issuer | Caesaraugusta (Roman Provincial Mint) |
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| Year | 6 BC |
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| Value | As (1⁄16) |
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| Obverse description | Bare laureate head of Augustus facing left, rendered in a restrained Julio-Claudian provincial style with delicately incised facial features and a wreath of laurel leaves encircling the brow. The portrait is set within a circular border of dots (beaded border), with the imperial titulature legend distributed around the periphery of the field. The effigy displays a strong profile with clearly defined jaw, neck, and ear, consistent with Augustan iconographic conventions found on provincial coinage of Hispania Tarraconensis. |
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| Obverse lettering | AVGVSTVS DIVI F COS XI DES XII PONT MAX (Translation: AVGVSTVS DIVI F(-ilii) CO(-n-)S(-ul) XI DES(-ignatus) XII PONT(-ifex) MAX(-imus). `Augustus, son of the divine, consul for the eleventh time and designated for the twelfth time, high priest.`) |
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Caesaraugusta — modern Zaragoza — was founded as a Roman colony around 14 BC, settling veterans of the Cantabrian Wars on the Ebro. The city's magistrates exercised the right to strike bronze locally, and duoviri like C. Alliarius and T. Verrius appear across a tightly clustered sequence of issues from the Augustan period, their names rotating through office in the civic calendar. RPC I 318 belongs to a well-documented series, but the colonial bronzes of Caesaraugusta are notoriously inconsistent in flan preparation, with many surviving examples showing ragged edges from irregular casting.