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Semis - Tiberius
| Issuer | Sabratha (Africa Proconsularis) |
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| Year | 14-37 |
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| Currency | Denarius (49 BC to AD 215) |
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| Obverse script | Phoenician |
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| Reverse description | Capricorn, the mythological sea-goat, depicted in dynamic right-facing posture with body extended horizontally across the field. A cornucopia is shown above the creature, a rudder below, and a globe beneath — all Augustan-Tiberian imperial symbols of prosperity, maritime power, and world dominion. The reverse field is plain with no legend, and the flan edges are irregular. The style is consistent with provincial bronze coinage struck at Sabratha during the reign of Tiberius. |
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Sabratha, one of the three cities that gave Tripolitania its name, struck bronze coinage under Tiberius as a provincial expression of loyalty to the new regime — Augustus had died in 14 AD, and civic mints across the empire were quick to signal alignment with his successor. Issues from Sabratha are scarce in any form; the city's output was limited compared to the major eastern provincial mints, and bronze fractions of this type survive in genuinely small numbers. The SNG Copenhagen specimen remains a primary reference point precisely because so few examples have entered institutional collections.