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Denarius - Juba II Caesarea
| Issuer | Mauretania |
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| Year | 7 |
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| Value | 1 Denarius |
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| Obverse description | Diademed and draped bust of King Juba II facing right, rendered in the Hellenistic portraiture tradition, with finely detailed curly hair bound by a royal diadem. The effigy displays characteristic Numidian-Hellenistic artistic style, with a prominent nose and strong facial features. The Latin legend REX IVBA is disposed around the bust in the field, reading partially above and to the right of the portrait. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Juba II ruled Mauretania as a client king under Augustus — educated in Rome, friend to the imperial family, and arguably more Greco-Roman intellectual than North African monarch. His coinage from Caesarea reflects that duality: a king minting in Roman denominations for a kingdom Rome needed stable but never quite trusted as sovereign. The year 7 of his reign falls squarely in the early Augustan settlement of the western provinces, when client arrangements like Juba's were actively reinforced after the chaos of the Actium aftermath.
Juba was also the most prolific ancient author on natural history before Pliny — a detail his coins do nothing to advertise.