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As - Tiberius C CAEC SER MVN TVR M VAL QVAD II VIR
| Issuer | Turiaso |
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| Year | 14-37 |
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| Value | As (1⁄16) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Emperor Tiberius facing right, rendered in the provincial style characteristic of Hispanic mints of the Julio-Claudian period. The portrait displays careful detailing of the laurel wreath and facial features, with a slightly idealized yet individualized likeness. The encircling Latin legend reads TI CAESAR AVGVST F IMPERAT, identifying the emperor as son of Augustus and commander-in-chief. The legend is distributed around the full circumference of the flan, which is somewhat irregular in shape. The workmanship reflects the local engraving tradition of the municipium of Turiaso in Hispania Tarraconensis. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Turiaso — modern Tarazona in Aragon — was among the municipia granted the right to strike bronze coinage under Augustus and continued doing so into Tiberius's reign. The city's issues are notable for naming their local magistrates (duoviri) directly on the coin, a practice that has allowed historians to reconstruct partial administrative sequences for the town but also creates attribution headaches when magistrate names recur across issues. This piece falls within the broader cessation of Spanish municipal bronze coinage that effectively ended under Caligula, making Tiberian-era Turiasan issues among the last of their kind from this mint.