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As - Augustus P CARISIVS LEG AVGVSTI
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 25 BC - 23 BC |
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| Weight | 12 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | CAESAR AVGV TRIBVN POTES (Translation: Caesar Augustus Tribunicia Potestate. Caesar Augustus, holder of tribunician power.) |
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Publius Carisius served as Augustus's legate in Hispania during the Cantabrian Wars, and these provincial bronzes were struck at Emerita Augusta — the colony he founded in 25 BC to settle veteran soldiers from those campaigns. The city itself, modern Mérida, takes its name from those veterans: *emeriti*. That Carisius named himself on the coinage as *legatus Augusti* rather than acting under his own authority was a pointed demonstration of the new Augustan order, where even a general's money bore the emperor's name first.