Semis - Augustus C VAR RVF SEX IVL POL II VIR Q

Carthago Nova — modern Cartagena — was one of the wealthiest cities in Roman Iberia, its fortunes built on the silver mines of the surrounding sierra that had once funded Hannibal's campaigns. Under Augustus, the colony retained the right to strike local bronze coinage, and the duoviri quinquennales named on this issue were elected magistrates responsible for census administration, a function performed only every five years, making their appearance on coin types relatively infrequent and chronologically useful for sequencing the colonial series.