Æ22 - Augustus Caesar

Corinth in the Augustan period was not the ancient Greek city but a Roman colonial refoundation — Colonia Laus Iulia Corinthiensis, established by Julius Caesar in 44 BC and repopulated largely with freedmen from Rome and Italy. The colonial administration maintained the right to strike its own bronze coinage, and issues spanning the late first century BC show a sustained effort to align local civic identity with imperial ideology. RPC I 1134 falls within a group of Corinthian bronzes whose precise dating remains contested, anchored primarily by magistrate names appearing across overlapping series.