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Denarius
| Issuer | Osca, City of |
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| Year | 39 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare, bearded male head facing right, rendered in a bold Ibero-Roman style with curly hair and a pronounced beaded beard executed as a field of pellets. The neck is adorned with a beaded collar or necklace of pellets. The legend OSCA appears to the left of the effigy, written downward within the inner border of dots. The portrait displays a strongly individualistic character typical of late Republican provincial coinage from Hispania Citerior. |
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| Obverse lettering | OSCA |
| Reverse description | A group of pontifical symbols arranged in the field: a curved simpulum (ladle) to the left, a vertically oriented axe surmounted by an apex (priestly cap) at centre, an aspergillium (sprinkler) to the upper right, and a hemispherical sacrificial bowl (patera or umbo) to the right. The legend DOM • COS • ITER is disposed around the periphery within a border of dots, reading as an abbreviation for Domitius Consul Iterum, identifying the magistrate Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus serving as consul for the second time. |
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