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As TVRIASO
| Issuer | Turiaso |
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| Year | 29 BC - 27 BC |
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| Weight | 12.21 g |
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| Reverse description | A rider on horseback advancing left, the figure depicted with right arm raised in a gesture of salute or command, seated upon a horse shown in animated motion. The equestrian type is rendered in the Iberian tradition common to Hispanic provincial coinage of the late Republican and early Augustan period, with the horse's legs extended and the rider's cloak suggested by the silhouette. The mint name TVRIASO appears in the exergue in Latin capital letters, identifying the issuing city of Turiaso in the conventus Caesaraugustanus. |
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| Mintage | ND (29 BC - 27 BC) |
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Turiaso — modern Tarazona in Aragón — was among the Iberian municipalities granted the right to strike bronze coinage under Augustus in the immediate aftermath of the civil wars. The as issues of this period reflect Rome's pragmatic decentralization of small-denomination production in Hispania, where the central mint could not efficiently supply local transactional needs. The city's Latin status under Rome made it an authorized issuer, though the precise political mechanism behind each individual grant remains debated.
The RPC I chronology places this issue tightly within the transition from Octavian to the Augustan title, before 27 BC.