v59_0215 - MAURETANIA - MAURETANIAN KINGDOM - JUBA II Denier
MONNAIES 59 (2013)
Starting price : 480.00 €
Estimate : 850.00 €
Realised price : 1 785.00 €
Number of bids : 12
Maximum bid : 2 750.00 €
Starting price : 480.00 €
Estimate : 850.00 €
Realised price : 1 785.00 €
Number of bids : 12
Maximum bid : 2 750.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: an 34
Mint name / Town : Césarée, Maurétanie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 3,03 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un petit flan parfaitement centré au droit avec le grènetis complet, légèrement décentré au revers. Portrait de Juba II de toute beauté. Revers fantastique. Magnifique patine de médaillier avec des reflets gris et dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock Bourgey en 1998 et de la collection du docteur Thierry de Craeker
Obverse
Obverse legend : REX IVBA.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Juba II à droite (O’).
Obverse translation : “Rex Iuba”, (roi Juba).
Reverse
Reverse legend : R XXXIIII.
Reverse description : Étoile à six rais surmontant un croissant.
Reverse translation : (an 34).
Commentary
Le revers est peut-être inspiré par le denier d’Auguste (RCV. 1640) de Turpilianus avec les mêmes symboles au revers (luni-solaire : astre et lune). Variété avec étoile à six rais centrée d’un globule. Ce type seul sans Cléopatre semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. L’exemplaire de MONNAIES 53 est parti à 510€ sur un maximum à 750 avec six offres.
The reverse is perhaps inspired by the denarius of Augustus (RCV. 1640) by Turpilianus with the same symbols on the reverse (lunisolar: star and moon). Variety with a six-pointed star centered on a globule. This type alone without Cleopatra seems much rarer than general works suggest. The copy from MONNAIES 53 went for €510 out of a maximum of €750 with six offers
The reverse is perhaps inspired by the denarius of Augustus (RCV. 1640) by Turpilianus with the same symbols on the reverse (lunisolar: star and moon). Variety with a six-pointed star centered on a globule. This type alone without Cleopatra seems much rarer than general works suggest. The copy from MONNAIES 53 went for €510 out of a maximum of €750 with six offers
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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