⅚ Unit - Juba I

Juba I ruled Numidia as a Roman client king but backed Pompey — and then the Pompeian remnants under Scipio — against Caesar during the civil war. When Caesar's forces defeated the combined army at Thapsus in 46 BC, Juba chose suicide over capture, reportedly fighting a fatal duel with the Roman general Petreius rather than face a triumph in Rome. The Numidian kingdom was immediately annexed as the province Africa Nova.

This fractional issue belongs to a silver coinage tied directly to that war period, struck to pay troops in a theater where Roman denarii were in short supply.