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Sestertius - Augustus HIPPONE LIBERA C L
| Issuer | Hippo Regius (Roman colonial mint, North Africa) |
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| Year | 6 BC - 5 BC |
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| Currency | Denarius (49 BC to AD 215) |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Augustus facing right, rendered in the idealized Augustan portrait style characteristic of provincial coinage of the period. The effigy displays the emperor's characteristic short-cropped hair and clean-shaven features. The circular Latin legend CAESAR AVGVSTVS runs around the periphery of the flan. The coin exhibits considerable wear and a deep brown patina with green encrustations consistent with long burial, largely obscuring finer die details. |
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| Obverse lettering | CAESAR AVGVSTVS (Translation: Caesar Augustus) |
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Hippo Regius — the city later made famous by Augustine's bishopric — operated as a Roman colonial mint for a narrow window under Augustus, producing a small series of large bronze issues for local circulation. The designation HIPPONE LIBERA identifies it as a free city, a status granted by Rome that permitted autonomous civic coinage without direct imperial oversight, though Augustus's titles still anchored the obverse. These provincial bronzes rarely traveled far; most examples recovered archaeologically come from the immediate hinterland of the colony itself.