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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.