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As - Augustus CAESARAVG II VIR MN KANINIO ITER L TITIO
| Issuer | Caesaraugusta |
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| Year | 2 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A bull standing right occupies the central field, rendered in moderate relief in the provincial Hispanian style associated with the Caesaraugusta mint. The bull motif was a common civic symbol on Augustan colonial coinage of the Iberian Peninsula. The legend CAESARAVG is inscribed in the upper field, while II VIR and the magistrates' names MN KANINIO ITER and L TITIO appear in two lines in the lower field and exergue, referencing the duumviri quinquennales responsible for the issue. A dotted border frames the design at the rim. |
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Caesaraugusta — modern Zaragoza — was a Roman colony founded around 14 BC on the Ebro, and its local magistrates struck bronze coinage as a civic privilege rather than an imperial obligation. The duoviri named on this issue, Mn. Kaninius and L. Titius, are attested only through the coin record itself; no epigraphic or literary source preserves them independently. The iteration marker on Kaninius's title confirms he had held the duovirate before, a detail that places this within a small, identifiable administrative sequence at the colony.