v53_0182 - MAURETANIA - MAURETANIAN KINGDOM - JUBA II and CLEOPATRA Denier
MONNAIES 53 (2012)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 145.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 198.00 €
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 145.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 198.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: c. 19 AC. - AD. 6
Mint name / Town : Maurétanie, Césarée
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 2,56 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Très joli revers. Flan piqué et corrodé au droit. Belle patine grise au revers
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient d’une vieille collection d’Afrique du Nord constituée avant l’indépendance
Obverse
Obverse legend : REX IVBA.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée 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. KLEOPATRA., (Basilissa Kleopatra)
Reverse translation : (reine Cléopâtre).
Commentary
Poids très léger. 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 petite étoile.
Very light weight. 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 small star
Very light weight. 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 small star
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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