Dupondius - Augustus P QVINCTILI VARI ACHVLLA

Achulla was a small Phoenician-founded settlement on the coast of Byzacena — modern-day Tunisia — that held the status of a free town under Roman administration. The magistrate name P. Quinctillius Varus recorded on this issue almost certainly refers to the same man who, a decade and a half later, lost three Roman legions in the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD, one of the most catastrophic military defeats in Roman history. He served as proconsul of Africa around 8–7 BC, and several municipia in the province issued bronze coinage under his name during that tenure.