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As - Augustus M CAL I C SEMP BARBA III Q BAEB FLAVO II VIR
| Issuer | Calagurris |
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| Year | 2 BC - 14 AD |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | A bull standing to the right, depicted in sturdy profile with prominent musculature, serving as the civic symbol of the Roman colony of Calagurris Iulia Nassica in Hispania Tarraconensis. The animal is rendered in a static, heraldic stance typical of Augustan provincial municipal bronzes. The surrounding legend, distributed around the periphery of the flan, names the two duoviri quinquennales responsible for the issue: M. Cal(purnius) and C. Semp(ronius) Barba as the third pair, and Q. Baeb(ius) Flav(us) as the second pair of magistrates, all rendered in abbreviated Latin. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Calagurris — modern Calahorra in La Rioja — was among the most loyal of Hispanian communities to Augustus, having supported him through the civil wars against Pompey's sons. The city held the honorific title Municipium Nasica and struck its own bronze coinage under locally appointed magistrates, the duoviri whose names appear in the legend. The pair recorded here, Sempron(ius) Barbarus and Baebius Flavus, can be approximately dated by cross-reference with other magistrate sequences from the mint.