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Æ Lixus
| Issuer | Mauretania |
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| Year | 50 BC - 1 BC |
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| Reference(s) | CNNM#633 , MAA#168 Copenhagen#694-696 |
| Obverse description | Bare head of the Phoenician deity Chusor-Ptah facing right, crowned with a distinctive headdress composed of clustered grape-like bosses and adorned with a hanging cord or tassel. The portrait is rendered in a bold, somewhat archaic Punic artistic style, with the face in sharp profile. The entire design is set within a dotted border encircling the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (50 BC - 1 BC) |
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Lixus, one of the oldest Phoenician settlements on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, struck its own civic bronze coinage during the late Republican period while nominally under Mauretanian authority. The city's autonomy in minting reflects the loose administrative grip that Berber kings maintained over their coastal dependencies — these were trading communities, and the right to coin was partly commercial convention.
The Copenhagen specimens (694–696) provide the primary die documentation for this type.