Catalog
Denarius - Juba II Caesarea
| Issuer | Mauretania |
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| Year | 6 |
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| Currency | Denarius (25BC-40AD) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed, diademed bust of Juba II facing right, rendered in the Hellenistic portrait tradition with finely detailed curling hair adorned with a diadem. The effigy displays a youthful, idealized profile with clean-cut facial features characteristic of Mauretanian royal coinage. The encircling legend reads IVBA REX, distributed across the field to the left and lower right of the portrait, identifying the monarch as King Juba. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Juba II ruled Mauretania as a client king under Augustus — educated in Rome, married to Cleopatra Selene II (daughter of Antony and Cleopatra), and more scholar than soldier. His reign produced an unusually prolific local silver coinage struck at Caesarea, modern Cherchell in Algeria, making Mauretanian denarii among the better-documented provincial royal issues of the early Principate.
The Copenhagen gap in this entry is telling. Not all CNNM-referenced varieties made it into Alexandropoulos's broader census, and pieces absent from the Copenhagen collection often reflect genuinely thin survival numbers rather than cataloguing lag.