bgr_971927 - MAURETANIA - MAURETANIAN KINGDOM - JUBA II Denier
550.00 €(Approx. 572.00$ | 456.50£)
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Type : Denier
Date: c. 20 AC. - AD. 20
Mint name / Town : Césarée, Maurétanie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 3,23 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie légèrement décentrée au revers mais bel éléphant. Buste agréable. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : REX. IVBA.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé de Juba II à droite, drapé sur l’épaule gauche (O’2).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Éléphant passant à droite, la trompe levée.
Commentary
Le revers n’est pas sans rappeler le denier de Jules César, vainqueur de Juba Ier à la bataille de Thapsus en 46 avant J.-C. et qui avait le même sujet au droit avec la légende CAESAR (RCV. 1399).
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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