Carisivs served as legatus Augusti in Hispania during the final, brutal phase of the Cantabrian Wars, when Augustus was personally present on the peninsula trying — and largely failing — to finish a conflict that had dragged on since 29 BC. This as is among the earliest colonial bronze issues struck at Emerita Augusta, the colony founded in 25 BC to settle veteran soldiers from the legio V Alaudae and legio X Gemina. The mint barely existed when these were struck.
Carisivs served as legatus Augusti in Hispania during the final, brutal phase of the Cantabrian Wars, when Augustus was personally present on the peninsula trying — and largely failing — to finish a conflict that had dragged on since 29 BC. This as is among the earliest colonial bronze issues struck at Emerita Augusta, the colony founded in 25 BC to settle veteran soldiers from the legio V Alaudae and legio X Gemina. The mint barely existed when these were struck.