Æ Unit - Cleopatra Selene

Cleopatra Selene — daughter of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony, paraded through Rome in golden chains at Octavian's triumph of 29 BC — was installed as queen of Mauretania alongside her husband Juba II, a arrangement that suited Augustus politically while disposing of an inconvenient Ptolemaic heir without execution. She died sometime before 6 BC, making coins bearing her name among the earlier issues of the Mauretanian joint reign. The dating range of this series is reconstructed largely from synchronizing Juba's regal years with Augustan administrative records, not from the coins themselves.