Osca, modern Huesca in northeastern Spain, was among the handful of Spanish municipia still operating local bronze issues during Caligula's reign — a privilege increasingly curtailed under his successors. The duoviri named in the legend, P. Priscus and the magistrate paired with him, are attested nowhere else in the epigraphic record, making this coin the sole surviving evidence of their tenure.
Caligula abolished most provincial mint activity in the western empire before his assassination in 41 AD, and Osca ceased striking shortly after.
Osca, modern Huesca in northeastern Spain, was among the handful of Spanish municipia still operating local bronze issues during Caligula's reign — a privilege increasingly curtailed under his successors. The duoviri named in the legend, P. Priscus and the magistrate paired with him, are attested nowhere else in the epigraphic record, making this coin the sole surviving evidence of their tenure.
Caligula abolished most provincial mint activity in the western empire before his assassination in 41 AD, and Osca ceased striking shortly after.