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Dupondius - Tiberius C VIBIO MARSO PR COS II Q CAECILIVS IOVINVS IIV F C M M I V
| Issuer | Utica (Africa Proconsularis) |
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| Year | 28-29 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Livia, depicted in her guise as a seated goddess or personification, faces right upon a high-backed throne or chair of state, holding a patera in her extended right hand and a long sceptre in her left. The figure is rendered in a formal, hieratic style typical of provincial Julio-Claudian bronzes. The throne rests on a decorated base visible at the lower field. A lengthy magistrates' inscription in Latin encircles the entire design, naming both the proconsul and the local duovir responsible for the issue. |
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| Mint | Utica (Africa Proconsularis) |
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Utica was among the oldest Phoenician settlements in North Africa and, by the early imperial period, served as the administrative capital of Africa Proconsularis before Carthage reassumed that role. This provincial issue was struck under the authority of the proconsul C. Vibius Marsus — later governor of Syria under Claudius — and the duoviri whose names appear in the legend, a minting arrangement typical of Roman colonial civic issues where local magistrates held nominal responsibility for bronze production. The proconsulship of Vibius Marsus at Utica dates the coin precisely to 28–29 AD, during Tiberius's reign.