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As - Augustus CAESARAVGVSTA L CASSIO C VALE FEN II VIR
| Issuer | Caesaraugusta (Roman Colonial Mint) |
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| Year | 27 BC - 14 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (27 BC - 14 AD) |
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Caesaraugusta — modern Zaragoza — was founded as a Roman colony around 14 BC, settled by veterans of the Cantabrian Wars, and almost immediately began producing a substantial colonial bronze coinage. The duoviri named on this piece, L. Cassio and C. Vale(rius) Fen(estella), served as the chief magistrates responsible for authorizing the issue, a civic function that gave local elites a visible role in the imperial monetary order without granting them any actual monetary authority over weight or metal.
RPC I 309 is well-attested, but provincial bronzes from Caesaraugusta are frequently encountered with surface corrosion from the Ebro basin's burial conditions.