Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Quadrans - Augustus IVL TRA
| Issuer | Iulia Traducta |
|---|---|
| Year | 27 BC - 14 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Central type features a fish depicted in profile, rendered naturalistically in low relief, a motif closely associated with the coastal town of Iulia Traducta and its maritime identity. Above the fish, two small devices are visible flanking the upper field. The colonial mint legend IVL TRA is inscribed below the fish in two abbreviated Latin words, identifying the issuing community of Iulia Traducta on the Straits of Gibraltar. The whole design is enclosed within a dotted border. The workmanship is consistent with local Augustan-era Hispanic provincial coinage. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Iulia Traducta was a Roman colonial foundation on the southern coast of Hispania, established by Augustus — almost certainly from a population transplanted from Tingi in Mauretania, possibly as early as 33 BC under Agrippa's administration of the region. The colony's coinage is tightly linked to Augustan administrative reorganization of the far western provinces, and the quadrans denomination here served the smallest everyday transactions in a garrison-adjacent community with active maritime traffic through the Strait.
The RPC I 106 attribution places this among a small, well-documented municipal series. Specimens are genuinely scarce in the market relative to better-known Hispano-Roman colonial issues.