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Dupondius - Tiberius LEPIDO ET GEMELLO II VIR CCA
| Issuer | Caesaraugusta (Roman Provincial Mint) |
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| Year | 14-37 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Tiberius facing right, rendered in the Julio-Claudian portrait tradition with finely detailed hair beneath the laurel wreath. The effigy is boldly struck in high relief against a plain field. A circular Latin legend runs along the periphery, framed by a beaded border. The portrait conveys the imperial authority characteristic of Tiberian provincial coinage struck at Caesaraugusta. |
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| Mintage | ND (14-37) |
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Caesaraugusta — modern Zaragoza — was a Roman colony founded by Augustus along the Ebro, and its local magistrates issued bronze coinage with an enthusiasm that outlasted most provincial mints in Hispania. This piece names the duoviri Lepido and Gemello, the paired magistrates whose names served as the dating mechanism in the absence of imperial regnal years on provincial issues. Identifying the precise pair is what anchors a coin to a narrow window within Tiberius's long reign.
RPC I 366 places this emission firmly within the Tiberian sequence at Caesaraugusta, a mint that struck under at least a dozen different magistrate pairs across that reign alone.