Sestertius - Augustus P SITTIVS MVGONIANVS IIIIVIR DECR DECVR D S P

Cirta, the old Numidian royal capital refounded as a Roman colony under Caesar, issued civic bronze coinage under local magistrates during the Augustan period — the IIIIVIR (quattuorviri) named on this piece being the colonial equivalent of the Roman aedile, responsible for authorizing expenditure from the public treasury, as the D S P (de sua pecunia, or decreto decurionum de pecunia publica) formula indicates. P. Sittius Mugonianus almost certainly belonged to the colonial settler families descended from the troops of the adventurer P. Sittius of Nuceria, whose private army helped Caesar defeat the Pompeians in Africa in 46 BC and who was rewarded with Cirta itself.