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Æ Unit Lixus
| Issuer | Mauretania |
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| Year | 50 BC - 1 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Two tall, schematically rendered cult objects or standards depicted facing, likely representing the twin pillars or divine symbols associated with the Phoenician deity Melqart, patron god of Lixus. The devices are flanked by subsidiary symbolic elements at their bases, rendered in a flat, linear style typical of Punic-influenced civic bronzes. The whole design is enclosed within a partial dotted border. No legible legend is present, consistent with the known anepigraphy of this Lixus series. |
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| Mint | Lixus |
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Lixus, one of the oldest Phoenician settlements on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, maintained a semi-autonomous civic coinage well into the period of Mauretanian royal consolidation. These bronzes were struck locally rather than at a royal mint, reflecting the town's commercial importance — its salting industry and putative mythological associations with the Garden of the Hesperides gave it unusual prestige among coastal trading communities.
The CNNM and Müller references place this type among a small cluster of Atlantic Mauretanian civic issues that predate the full absorption of the region under Juba II after 25 BC.