Semis - Augustus L AVFID PANSA SEX POMP NIGRO AED C V I CELSA

Celsa — modern Velilla de Ebro in Aragon — was a Roman colony on the Ebro established for veteran settlers, and its municipal mint was among the most prolific in Hispania under Augustus. This semis was issued under the aediles Lucius Aufidius Pansa and Sextus Pompeius Niger, magistrates whose names appear across several denominations of Celsan bronze, suggesting a sustained issuing program rather than a one-off local run. Municipal aediles in Spanish colonies held direct responsibility for weights and measures, making their appearance on coinage both an administrative act and a public declaration of civic authority.