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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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| Reverse lettering | KΛЄOΠATPA BACIΛICCA |
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| Mint | Caesarea |
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Juba II was no provincial client king — he had been raised in Rome after his father's defeat at Thapsus in 46 BC, educated alongside the Roman elite, and eventually installed in Mauretania by Augustus around 25 BC as a deliberate instrument of cultural Romanization on the North African fringe. His queen, Cleopatra Selene, was the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra VII, herself brought to Rome as a child to walk in Octavian's triumph. That two such figures ended up ruling together in Caesarea is one of the stranger biographical convergences of the early imperial period.
The SNG Copenhagen variant designation reflects die differences in the reverse field that remain incompletely catalogued.