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MAURETANIAN KINGDOM. Juba II, with Cleopatra Selene (25 BC-AD 24). AR denarius (17mm, 3.09 gm, 12h). NGC Choice AU★ 4/5 - 5/5. Caesarea in Mauretania, ca. AD 11. REX IVBA, diademed head of Juba II right / BACIΛICCA•KΛЄOΠATPA, six-pointed star within crescent. SNG Copenhagen 8, 567. A spectacular example with blue and gold iridescent hues; perhaps the finest example ever offered at auction.
From the Historical Scholar Collection
This coin is a testament to the many languages spoken in the Kingdom of Mauretania during the period of Juba's rule. The obverse legend is in Latin, a nod to the kingdom's status as a vassal of Rome. Juba, who had grown up in Rome and fought on Augustus' side at Actium, was a personal friend of the first emperor and named the new Mauretanian capital Caesarea in his honor. The reverse legend honors Juba's wife Cleopatra, daughter of Mark Antony and Cleopatra of Egypt, and is written in Greek in an allusion to her mother's Ptolemaic Greek heritage. Though Latin and Greek were the languages that appeared on Juba's coinage, neither were the colloquial tongues of everyday life in his kingdom. The main language of the common population was Berber, which, despite nearly twenty centuries of rule by Latin and Arabic speakers, has survived to the present day. The second language of the kingdom was Punic, a Semitic tongue that was a remnant of six-hundred years of Carthaginian rule and still enjoyed a large number of speakers in the first century AD.
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Estimate: 1000-1750 USD
MAURETANIAN KINGDOM. Juba II, with Cleopatra Selene (25 BC-AD 24). AR denarius (17mm, 3.09 gm, 12h). NGC Choice AU★ 4/5 - 5/5. Caesarea in Mauretania, ca. AD 11. REX IVBA, diademed head of Juba II right / BACIΛICCA•KΛЄOΠATPA, six-pointed star within crescent. SNG Copenhagen 8, 567. A spectacular example with blue and gold iridescent hues; perhaps the finest example ever offered at auction.
From the Historical Scholar Collection
This coin is a testament to the many languages spoken in the Kingdom of Mauretania during the period of Juba's rule. The obverse legend is in Latin, a nod to the kingdom's status as a vassal of Rome. Juba, who had grown up in Rome and fought on Augustus' side at Actium, was a personal friend of the first emperor and named the new Mauretanian capital Caesarea in his honor. The reverse legend honors Juba's wife Cleopatra, daughter of Mark Antony and Cleopatra of Egypt, and is written in Greek in an allusion to her mother's Ptolemaic Greek heritage. Though Latin and Greek were the languages that appeared on Juba's coinage, neither were the colloquial tongues of everyday life in his kingdom. The main language of the common population was Berber, which, despite nearly twenty centuries of rule by Latin and Arabic speakers, has survived to the present day. The second language of the kingdom was Punic, a Semitic tongue that was a remnant of six-hundred years of Carthaginian rule and still enjoyed a large number of speakers in the first century AD.
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HID02906262019
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Estimate: 1000-1750 USD