142 | Celtiberian coins

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PATRICIA COLONIA (Córdoba). Sesterce. (Ae. 39.26g/41mm). 27 BC-14 AD (FAB-1987). Obv: Head of Augustus left, around legend: CAESARIS AVGVSTI PERMISSV. Rev: Legend: COLONIA/PATRICIA, inside a laurel wreath. Good Very Fine. Retouched. Very rare specimen.

Without the fame of Emerita Augusta, in Lusitania, or Tarraco in Tarraconense, an example of large cities on the peninsula in the time of Augustus, Roman Córdoba became the capital of the southernmost province of the Iberian Peninsula. Regarding the coinage, sesterces and aces share reverses with laureate crowns showing inside the legend Colonia Patricia, the name that the city currently receives after the Latin denomination of Cordvba. Although in theory dupondios and sesterces should have been made of orichalcum, the truth is that they also ended up making bronze with the peculiarity of weighing considerably more than usual.