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Denarius - Juba II and Cleopatra Selene Caesarea
| Issuer | Mauretania |
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| Year | 11-23 |
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| Currency | Denarius (25BC-40AD) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | B-ACI•ΛI [KΛ]ЄΟΠΑΤΡA (Translation: Queen Cleopatra) |
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Juba II was installed as client king of Mauretania by Augustus around 25 BC — not because of any ancestral claim to the region, but because Rome needed a reliable administrator in North Africa and Juba, raised in Rome after his father's defeat at Thapsus, was thoroughly Romanized. His queen, Cleopatra Selene, was the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra VII, brought to Rome as a child to walk in her mother's place during Octavian's triumph. That two such figures ended up ruling a North African kingdom together is one of the stranger diplomatic outcomes of the Augustan settlement.
The Caesarea mint issues from this joint reign span roughly 25 BC to Juba's death around AD 23, making precise dating within that window genuinely difficult for most types.