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| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 19 BC - 4 BC |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | P PETRON TVRPILIAN IIIVIR (Translation: Publius Petronius Turpilianus, Triumvir Monetalis.) |
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P. Petronius Turpilianus served as one of the tresviri monetales — the junior magistrates responsible for Rome's mint — during the later Augustan period, when the imperial coinage system was still being consolidated after decades of civil war. The tresviri retained their names on coinage as a deliberate nod to Republican tradition, even as actual monetary authority had long since shifted to Augustus himself. This particular issue belongs to a group produced at Rome during a period when the mint was working to supply coinage for a monetized economy expanding rapidly across the western provinces.