This coin from the reign of Augustus ~18 BC, is from an undetermined mint in Spain. (Colonia Patricia? or Tarraco? or less likely Nemausus in Gaul?) It celebrates Augustus' diplomatic success of retrieving the standard of Rome that were lost by Crassus to the Parthians. More on this coin here: https://www.sullacoins.com/post/triumphs-of-augustus Post your early coins of Augustus, Coins of Phraates IV or anything else you find interesting or entertaining.
Here is a fairly early Augustus Colonial coin under Augustas who founded the city as Caesaraugusta between 25 BC and 11 BC as a colony to settle army veterans from the Cantabrian wars. As a Roman city, it had all the typical public buildings: forum, baths, theatre, and was an important economic centre. Many Roman ruins can still be seen in Zaragoza today. The Etymology is as follows. The Iberian town that preceded Roman colonisation was called Salduie or Salduba. The Romans and Greeks called the ancient city Caesaraugusta (in Greek Καισαραυγοῦστα from which derive the Arabic name سرقسطة Saraqusṭa (used during the Al-Andalus period), the medieval Çaragoça, and the modern Zaragoza. AUGUSTUS. Æ. As. (Caesaraugusta, Zaragoza, Spain) 25-11 BC Magistrates: Gnaeus Domitius Ampianus, Gaius Vettius Lancianus Obverse: IMP. AVGVSTVS. TRIB. POTS. XX., laureate head of Augustus to the right. Reverse: CAES. AVGVS (clockwise from 10-1). CN. DOM. AMP. C. VET. LANC (anti clockwise from 8-2). Priest ploughing with pair of oxen to the right. Below II (with horizontal line above) VIR. (*) RPC volume I, #320 Leaded bronze,12.85g. 31mm. Reference: Vives 148–10, GMI 328, Beltrán 16, NAH 982, AB. 327. * Taken from forumancient coins; II VIR One of two Roman officers or magistrates united in the same public functions (one of two (duumviri of a duumvirate). The title written as II VIR, appears on provincial and colonial coinage when dumvir was the title of the highest officials of the city. The office was held in much consideration during the Republic, as well for the power it conferred, as on account of its antiquity, the creation of the duumviri being referred to a period so far back as the reign of Tullus Hostillius.
