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As - Augustus CAESARAVGVSTA II VIR M PORCI CN FAD
| Issuer | Caesaraugusta (Roman Provincial Mint) |
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| Year | 8 BC - 1 BC |
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| Value | As (1⁄16) |
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| Obverse description | Bare laureate head of Augustus facing left, rendered in the classical Roman provincial style. To the left of the portrait, a simpulum (libation ladle) and a lituus (augural staff) appear in the field, symbols of pontifical and augural office respectively. The surrounding legend reads IMP AVGVSTVS XIV, denoting his fourteenth imperial acclamation. The portrait exhibits strong, idealized features characteristic of Augustan coinage, with the laurel wreath rendered in fine detail. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Caesaraugusta — modern Zaragoza — was established as a Roman colony around 14 BC, likely settled with veterans from Augustus's Cantabrian Wars, and the city's coins functioned partly as civic propaganda for a community anxious to advertise its loyalty. The duoviri whose names appear on this as, Marcus Porcius and Gnaeus Fadius, held magistracies during a period when the colony's mint was exceptionally active, producing multiple denominations under rotating pairs of officials.
The RPC I 314 attribution places this firmly within the colony's second series of duoviral issues.