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Denarius - Juba II and Cleopatra Selene Caesarea
| Issuer | Mauretania |
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| Year | 19 BC - 6 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑ ΚΛΕΟΠΑΤΡΑ (Translation: Queen Cleopatra) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Juba II was no ordinary client king. Captured as an infant during his father's defeat at Thapsus in 46 BC, he was raised in Rome, educated among the elite, and became a personal friend of Augustus — who later installed him on the Mauretanian throne partly as a scholarly experiment in Romanized rule. His queen, Cleopatra Selene, was the surviving daughter of Antony and Cleopatra VII, herself paraded through Rome in Octavian's triumph of 29 BC before being given in marriage to Juba.
The coinage of their joint reign reflects a court that was aggressively bilingual, issuing in both Latin and Greek across different series.