Carthago Nova was one of the most productive municipal mints in Hispania during the Augustan period, and its magistrate-named coinage offers an unusually precise record of local administrative succession. The HIBERO PRAEF designation identifies a praefect rather than the more common duoviri, a distinction that points to an interruption in the normal colonial magistracy — possibly a temporary appointment during a period when the regular offices went unfilled.
RPC I 166 places this issue within a tightly sequenced series, the ordering of which has been revised more than once since the first RPC volume appeared in 1992.
Carthago Nova was one of the most productive municipal mints in Hispania during the Augustan period, and its magistrate-named coinage offers an unusually precise record of local administrative succession. The HIBERO PRAEF designation identifies a praefect rather than the more common duoviri, a distinction that points to an interruption in the normal colonial magistracy — possibly a temporary appointment during a period when the regular offices went unfilled.
RPC I 166 places this issue within a tightly sequenced series, the ordering of which has been revised more than once since the first RPC volume appeared in 1992.