Dupondius - Tiberius C VIBIO MARSO PR COS II Q CAECILIVS IOVINVS IIV F C M M I V

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.