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Æ MATA, Matavonium
| Issuer | Matavonium |
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| Year | 27 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Bare or lightly draped male head facing right, rendered in a provincial style with broad, somewhat crude features typical of Hispano-Roman local coinage of the Augustan period. The portrait, likely representing Augustus or a local magistrate, occupies the central field of the flan. The surface shows considerable wear and the flan is irregular, consistent with hand-struck provincial bronze issues. No visible legend or inscription surrounds the effigy. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Matavonium was a small Celtic settlement in the Po Valley region of Cisalpine Gaul, and its bronze issues belong to a cluster of locally sanctioned coinages produced in the immediate aftermath of Actium, when Augustus was consolidating provincial administration across northern Italy. RPC I 535 falls within a group of "Æ MATA" pieces whose exact civic authority remains debated — the abbreviated legend has resisted definitive attribution, and some scholars have questioned whether Matavonium functioned as a formally constituted municipium at the time of issue or was operating under looser Roman tolerance.