bgr_319525 - MAURETANIA - MAURETANIAN KINGDOM - JUBA II Denier
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Price : 250.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 250.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: c. 20 AC - AD.20
Mint name / Town : Maurétanie, Césarée
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 3,15 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Portrait de haut relief, finement détaillé. Très joli revers. Belle patine de médaillier avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : REX IVBA.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé de Juba II à droite (O’).
Obverse translation : “Rex Iuba”, (roi Juba).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Corne d'abondance posée à gauche avec un sceptre transversal à droite ; dans le champ supérieur droit, un croissant.
Commentary
Poids très léger. Sur notre exemplaire, les grappes de raisin sont minuscules. La corne d’abondance “cornucopiæ” est ornée d’un petit croissant dans le champ à droite.
Historical background
MAURETANIA - MAURETANIAN KINGDOM - JUBA II
(25 BC - 23 AD)
Juba I had been defeated at Thapsus in 46 BC but his son, Juba II (50 AC. - 23 AD), brought up by Octavia, became the friend of Augustus who gave him the province of Mauretania in 25 BC Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra VII and Marc Antoine, was spared by Octave in 30 BC when the latter had Ptolemy XV (Caesarion) put to death. She married Juba II around 19 BC and died around 5 or 6 AD. Juba II survived him by about eighteen years. She is the great aunt of Caligula and the mother of Ptolemy who succeeded Juba II and whom his cousin Caligula had assassinated in Rome in 40 to annex Mauretania.
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