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bgr_943465 - MAURETANIA - MAURETANIAN KINGDOM - JUBA II and CLEOPATRA Denier
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Price : 420.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: c. 19 AC. - AD. 6
Mint name / Town : Césarée, Maurétanie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,04 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli portrait. Revers agréable. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : REX IVBA.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Juba II à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Rex Iuba”, (roi Juba).
Reverse
Reverse description : Étoile à six rais surmontant un croissant.
Reverse legend : BASILISSA. ILEOPLTRL., (Basilissa Kleopatra)
Reverse translation : (reine Cléopâtre).
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 grand croissant de lune et grande étoile. La légende est stéréotypée, le K a la forme d’un I et les A sont ouverts en forme de Lambda.
The reverse is perhaps inspired by the denarius of Augustus (RCV. 1640) of Turpilianus with the same symbols on the reverse (lunisolar: star and moon). Variety with large crescent moon and large star. The legend is stereotypical, the K has the shape of an I and the A's are open in the shape of Lambda
The reverse is perhaps inspired by the denarius of Augustus (RCV. 1640) of Turpilianus with the same symbols on the reverse (lunisolar: star and moon). Variety with large crescent moon and large star. The legend is stereotypical, the K has the shape of an I and the A's are open in the shape of Lambda
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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