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Denarius - Juba II Caesarea
| Issuer | Mauretania |
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| Year | 6 |
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| Weight | 3.15 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A distyle temple facade with lateral peribolus walls depicted in careful architectural detail, the entablature bearing the inscription AVGVSTI. The pediment is decorated with a central eagle with wings spread, flanked by standing Victories on each acroterion. A crescent surmounts the apex of the pediment, a recurring Mauretanian royal symbol. The regnal year reference R·XXXI appears in the exergue, denoting the thirty-first year of Juba II's reign. |
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Juba II ruled Mauretania as a client king under Augustus and later Tiberius — educated in Rome, fluent in Greek, and the author of scholarly works on geography, natural history, and theatre that were cited by Pliny. His coinage reflects this dual identity: a Roman-educated intellectual issuing coins from Caesarea (modern Cherchell, Algeria) using Roman denominational conventions while maintaining a distinctly local royal authority. The SNG Copenhagen gap for this type signals genuine scarcity in major reference collections.