As - Tiberius L APRONIVS HIPPONE LIBERA, Hippo Regius

Hippo Regius — modern Annaba in Algeria — was one of the few North African municipia granted the right to strike bronze coinage under Augustus, a privilege that continued fitfully into Tiberius's reign. This issue belongs to a series tied to the proconsulship of Lucius Apronius, who governed Africa from around 18 to 21 AD and is better remembered for his brutal suppression of the Tacfarinas revolt, a prolonged guerrilla war waged by a former auxiliary soldier across Numidia. The coin's civic magistrate names anchor it precisely within that turbulent period.