Denarius - Juba II Caesarea

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Descrizione del rovescio	A distyle temple facade depicted in elevation, featuring two columns supporting an entablature inscribed AVGVSTI, denoting dedication to Augustus. The pediment is surmounted by a crescent at its apex and decorated with an eagle at center flanked by Victories, while a lateral peribolus encloses the sanctuary on either side. The regnal year numeral R XXXI appears in the exergue, recording the thirty-first year of Juba II's reign.
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Tiratura	31 (6 AD)
Informazioni aggiuntive	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.