Denarius - Juba II Caesarea

Juba II ruled Mauretania not as a native king but as a Roman-educated client, having been paraded as an infant in Julius Caesar's triumph of 46 BC before being raised in Rome and later installed by Augustus around 25 BC. His coinage at Caesarea drew heavily on Roman monetary conventions while incorporating Ptolemaic dynastic references through his wife Cleopatra Selene II, daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. The royal mint's output remains poorly catalogued — the absence of standard reference numbers here reflects genuine scholarly gaps rather than rarity alone.