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As - Tiberius MVN TVRIASO MN SVLP LVCAN M SEMP FRONT
| Issuer | Turiaso |
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| Year | 14-37 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed laureate bust of Tiberius facing left, rendered in high relief with characteristic Roman portraiture of the Julio-Claudian period. The emperor is depicted with closely cropped hair and a strong, stern profile. A circular Latin legend surrounds the bust reading TI CAESAR AVG F AVGVSTVS IMP, identifying the emperor as Tiberius, son of the divine Augustus. The die work is bold and typical of provincial Hispanic coinage struck under Roman imperial authority. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Turiaso — modern Tarazona in Aragon — was one of the more prolific municipal minting authorities in Hispania Citerior during the Julio-Claudian period, producing a sustained bronze coinage through the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius. The magistrate names preserved in the legend, Mn. Sulpicius Lucanus and M. Sempronius Fronto, place this piece within a datable sequence of duoviral issues that RPC I assigns to the Tiberian years. Municipal bronzes of this type circulated almost exclusively at the regional level, functioning as small-change in markets the imperial mint at Rome had no practical interest in supplying.