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As - Augustus P I SP D V SP IIVIR C I C P P D D
| Issuer | Carthage (Africa Proconsularis) |
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| Year | 10 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Augustus facing right, rendered in the idealized portraiture characteristic of early Imperial colonial bronzes. The effigy displays the emperor's distinctive facial features with close-cropped hair arranged in the Augustan manner. A circumferential Latin legend runs around the periphery of the flan, naming the emperor with his full titulature. The flan is irregular and slightly convex, as is typical of provincially struck hammered bronzes of this period. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse field is occupied by a two-line inscription, PP / DD, centered within the flan and enclosed by an incuse circular border. The abbreviated legend PP DD (Pecunia Publica / Decreto Decurionum — public money by decree of the decurions) is framed by a surrounding circular legend naming the two local duovirs and the colony. The lettering is bold and deeply struck, consistent with the epigraphic conventions of Roman colonial coinage in Africa Proconsularis during the Augustan period. |
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| Reverse lettering | P I SP D V SP IIVIR C I C P P D D (Translation: Publius I— Sp— (and) Decimus V— Sp—, duovirs, the Julian colony of Carthage, public money, by decree of the decurions) |
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