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Semis - Augustus C AQVINVS MELA II VIR QVIN
| Issuer | Carthago Nova |
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| Year | 27 BC - 14 AD |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Winged Victory standing right, depicted in flowing drapery, holding a wreath in her extended right hand and a palm branch in her left. The figure is rendered in a provincial Roman style characteristic of Hispanian municipal coinage under Augustus. The circular Latin legend naming the duoviri quinquennales P. Baebius Pollio runs around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Reverse description | Two military signa (standards) depicted upright and facing, each composed of a vertical shaft surmounted by a series of circular disc-shaped phalerae arranged in two parallel vertical columns, with a crescent-shaped element visible at the base of each standard. The field between the standards is plain. The circular Latin legend naming the duovir quinquennalis C. Aquinus Mela surrounds the design. |
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Carthago Nova — modern Cartagena — was among the most productive silver mining centers in the Roman world, yet this municipal bronze was struck under the authority of local magistrates, the IIviri quinquennales, who held censorial powers and convened only every five years. C. Aquinus Mela's name on this issue pins it to one of those quinquennial cycles, making precise dating within Augustus's long reign difficult but the magistracy itself historically fixed.