The moneyer P. Petronius Turpilianus held the tresviri monetales position — one of three junior magistrates overseeing the mint — during a period when Augustus was systematically reasserting Roman coinage as an instrument of political reconstruction after decades of civil war. The office itself was ancient, but under Augustus its holders worked within tight constraints: the princeps, not the senate, dictated the imagery and messaging on precious metal issues.
RIC I 293 belongs to a Spanish mint attribution, almost certainly Lugdunum or the mobile Iberian facility active during Augustus's campaigns, not Rome itself.
The moneyer P. Petronius Turpilianus held the tresviri monetales position — one of three junior magistrates overseeing the mint — during a period when Augustus was systematically reasserting Roman coinage as an instrument of political reconstruction after decades of civil war. The office itself was ancient, but under Augustus its holders worked within tight constraints: the princeps, not the senate, dictated the imagery and messaging on precious metal issues.
RIC I 293 belongs to a Spanish mint attribution, almost certainly Lugdunum or the mobile Iberian facility active during Augustus's campaigns, not Rome itself.