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As - Augustus VAC AX A TE TIRO AED
| Issuer | Babba |
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| Year | 19 BC |
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| Value | As (1⁄16) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Babba Iulia Campestris was a Roman colony in Mauretania whose exact location remains disputed — most scholarship places it somewhere in the Gharb plain of modern Morocco, though no confirmed archaeological site has been pinned down. This coin belongs to a narrow window of colonial coinage authorized under Augustus as part of Rome's administrative consolidation of the western Mauretanian frontier around 19 BC, the same year Agrippa was managing military operations in the region.
The magistrates named in the legend — the aediles Tiro and Vac(cius) or similar — represent the local duoviral and aedilician college typical of Augustan colonial administration, their names preserved on almost nothing else.