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Denarius - Juba II Caesarea
| Issuer | Mauretania |
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| Year | 16 |
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| Value | 1 Denarius |
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| Obverse lettering | REX · IVBΛ |
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| Mintage | 41 (16 AD) |
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Juba II ruled Mauretania as a client king under Augustus and Tiberius — educated in Rome, personally acquainted with Augustus, and arguably more Hellenistic intellectual than North African monarch. His coinage at Caesarea reflects this duality: a romanized king issuing silver on a reduced standard, tying his kingdom's currency to Roman monetary norms without being formally absorbed into the provincial system. The McClean reference without a Copenhagen SNG number suggests this particular emission was not well represented in Scandinavian collection patterns of the early twentieth century, pointing to an uneven survival distribution across European cabinets.