Live auction - bgr_349845 - MAURETANIA - MAURETANIAN KINGDOM - JUBA II Denier
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| Estimate : | 650 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 31 March 2015 14:14:20 |
Type : Denier
Date: c. 20 AC. - AD. 20
Mint name / Town : Césarée, Maurétanie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,06 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré avec les grènetis visibles. Belle tête de Juba II. Usure superficielle sur l’aigle au revers. Patine 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 : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Aigle debout de face sur un foudre, les ailes déployées, la tête tournée à droite ; sur l’aile gauche, un sceptre transversal posé et un croissant renversé sous le foudre.
Commentary
Le type de revers de ce denier est directement inspiré par la propagande monétaire augustéenne. Sur cet exemplaire, la tête de Juba II fait plutôt penser à un monarque hellénistique figé. L’exemplaire de MONNAIES 59, n° 225 s’est vendu 895€ avec quatre offres sur un maximum à 1185€ en SPL.
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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