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Sestertius - Augustus TIB FLAVO PRAEF GERMAN L IVVENT LVPERCO II VIR C C A
| Issuer | Caesaraugusta (Roman Colonial Mint) |
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| Year | 27 BC - 14 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A togate priest, advancing to the right, guides a yoke of two oxen as he ploughs the sacred furrow (sulcus primigenius), the ritual act symbolizing the foundation of a Roman colony. The priest holds a goad or plough handle, with the animals depicted in profile. The encircling legend names the duoviri quinquennales responsible for the issue, identifying them as the magistrates of the Colonia Caesar Augusta (C C A). The scene evokes the solemn colonial foundation rite performed under Augustan authority. |
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Caesaraugusta — modern Zaragoza — was founded as a Roman colony around 14 BC, settled with veterans from Augustus's Cantabrian campaigns. Its colonial mint produced bronze coinage under local magistrates, the duoviri, whose names appear on issues like this one. Tiberius Flavus and Lucius Iuventius Lupercus served as the duoviri quinquennales responsible for this emission, a magistracy held every five years with enhanced civic authority.
The colony's mint was active for a relatively compressed period, and the sequence of magistrate pairs helps anchor the chronology of individual emissions. RPC I 325 places this issue within the earlier Augustan colonial series from the mint.