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⅚ Unit - Juba I
| Issuer | Numidia |
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| Year | 60 BC - 46 BC |
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| Reference(s) | RPC Online I#720, MAA#32 |
| Obverse description | Bare head of a personification of Numidia or Africa facing right, wearing an elephant-skin headdress, the trunk and ears visible above the brow in characteristic North African royal iconography. The portrait is rendered in a bold, somewhat archaic style typical of Numidian coinage of the late Republican period. The field is plain, with no surrounding legend or inscription. |
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| Reverse lettering | S |
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Juba I ruled Numidia as a Roman client king but backed Pompey — and then the Pompeian remnants under Scipio — against Caesar during the civil war. When Caesar's forces defeated the combined army at Thapsus in 46 BC, Juba chose suicide over capture, reportedly fighting a fatal duel with the Roman general Petreius rather than face a triumph in Rome. The Numidian kingdom was immediately annexed as the province Africa Nova.
This fractional issue belongs to a silver coinage tied directly to that war period, struck to pay troops in a theater where Roman denarii were in short supply.