bgr_964377 - MAURETANIA - MAURETANIAN KINGDOM - JUBA II and CLEOPATRA Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: c. 19 AC. - AD. 6
Mint name / Town : Césarée, Maurétanie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,37 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, ovale, centré. Double frappe au revers. Joli portrait de Juba. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : REX IVBA.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Juba II à droite (O’).
Obverse translation : “Rex Iuba”, (roi Juba).
Reverse
Reverse description : Coiffe d'Isis et sistre.
Reverse legend : BAS-ILIS-SA //KLEOPATRA, (Basilissa Kleopatra).
Reverse translation : (reine Cléopâtre).
Historical background
MAURETANIA - MAURETANIAN KINGDOM - JUBA II and CLEOPATRA
(19 BC - 6 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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