v53_0164 - MAURETANIA - MAURETANIAN KINGDOM - JUBA II Denier
MONNAIES 53 (2012)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 480.00 €
Realised price : 421.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 675.00 €
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 480.00 €
Realised price : 421.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 675.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: c. 20 AC. - AD. 20
Mint name / Town : Maurétanie, Césarée
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,03 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier, décentré au droit sur la légende avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait de Juba II. Portrait de l’Afrique finement détaillé. Jolie patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés et bleutés acier
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection D. J.
Obverse
Obverse legend : [REX. IV]BA.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Juba II à droite (O’).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Buste drapé de l’Afrique à droite, coiffé de la dépouille d’éléphant ; derrière deux javelines ; devant, un épi.
Commentary
Le buste de l’Afrique est finement détaillé. Nous distinguons bien la représentation du derme du pachyderme.
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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