bgr_307624 - MAURETANIA - MAURETANIAN KINGDOM - JUBA II Denier
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Price : 300.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: c. 5-10
Mint name / Town : Césarée, Maurétanie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 3,23 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale et épais, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait stylisé de Juba II. Revers inhabituel bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine de collection ancienne grise avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : REX - IVBA.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Juba II à droite (O’).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LVCV/ VGVST.
Reverse description : Autel orné d’une guirlande entre deux lauriers.
Reverse translation : “Lucus Augusti”.
Commentary
Portrait particulier. Style indigène. Rare représentation d’un monument sur le monnayage de Juba II. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente avec la variante de légende au revers.
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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