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Denarius - Juba II Caesarea

Issuer Mauretania
Year 10
Type Standard circulation coin
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Obverse script Latin
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Reverse lettering E T Λ E
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Juba II ruled Mauretania as a client king under Augustus and Tiberius — educated in Rome, fluent in Greek, and the author of scholarly works on geography, natural history, and theater that were cited by Pliny and Athenaeus. His coinage reflects this dual identity, minted at Caesarea (modern Cherchell, Algeria) using a Hellenistic-influenced fabric at a time when most North African coinage had been absorbed into Roman provincial administration. His kingdom was one of the last formally independent client states in the western Mediterranean, though independence existed largely on Roman sufferance.

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