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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 5529058, member: 99456"]Here's a coin from Caligula from Hispania Tarraconensis that hasn't made an appearance yet. Lots of variation in the legend on this coin (see <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/400" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/400" rel="nofollow">RPC link</a>). The poet <a href="https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195389661/obo-9780195389661-0082.xml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195389661/obo-9780195389661-0082.xml" rel="nofollow">Martial</a>, born in Augusta Bilbilis when this coin was issued, writes of the region:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">"Fellow townsmen, born upon the steep slope of Augustan Bilbilis, which Salo [Jalón River] encompasses with its rapid waters, does the poetical glory of your bard afford you any pleasure? For my honour, and renown, and fame, are yours; nor does Verona, who would willingly number me among her sons, owe more to her tender Catullus."</font></p><p><font size="3">-Martial, <a href="http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/martial_epigrams_book10.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/martial_epigrams_book10.htm" rel="nofollow">10.103, To his fellow townsmen of Bilbilis</a></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">"… you, Licinianus, will behold the lofty Bilbilis, renowned for horses and arms, and Catus venerable with his locks of snow, and eased Vadavero with its broken cliffs, and the sweet grove of delicious Botrodus, which the happy Pomona loves..." </font></p><p><font size="3">- Martial, <a href="http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/martial_epigrams_book01.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/martial_epigrams_book01.htm" rel="nofollow">1.49, To Licinianus</a></font></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1240625[/ATTACH]<font size="3"></font></p><p><font size="3">Image derived using a map by Augusta 89, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" rel="nofollow">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carte_des_villes_voisines_de_Salduie_pendant_l%27Antiquit%C3%A9.svg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carte_des_villes_voisines_de_Salduie_pendant_l%27Antiquit%C3%A9.svg" rel="nofollow">Wikimedia Commons</a> and a static image from <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Aparcamiento+Augusta+B%C3%ADlbilis/@40.9460519,-8.0289261,5z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0xd5b8f9e9c1c2a2f:0xa87c28c5bcb54ef9!8m2!3d41.381498!4d-1.6112319" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Aparcamiento+Augusta+B%C3%ADlbilis/@40.9460519,-8.0289261,5z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0xd5b8f9e9c1c2a2f:0xa87c28c5bcb54ef9!8m2!3d41.381498!4d-1.6112319" rel="nofollow">Google maps</a>.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>A view of the archeological site:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1240634[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="2">Source: Berrozpe, L., Preciado, C., Manuel, M. (2011) <a href="https://doi.org/10.5944/etfi.4.2011.10752" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://doi.org/10.5944/etfi.4.2011.10752" rel="nofollow">Pictorical Novelties in Municipium Augusta Bilbilis: CIV Building</a></font></p><p><br /></p><p>and the coin :</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1240614[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Hispania Tarraconensis, Augusta Bilbilis, Gaius (Caligula)</b>, AD 37-41, AE, C. Corn. Refec. and M. Helv. Fronto, duoviri</p><p><b>Obv:</b> G CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS IMP R, Laureate head right</p><p><b>Rev: </b>MVN AVG BILBIL C CORN REFEC M HELV FRONT, Legend around oak wreath containing II VIR</p><p><b>Ref: </b>RPC I <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/400" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/400" rel="nofollow">400</a></p><p><b>Note:</b> Under Augustus, the city was given the status of <i>Municipium</i> becoming Augusta Bilbilis which gave the inhabitants privileges that included rights of Roman citizenship.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 5529058, member: 99456"]Here's a coin from Caligula from Hispania Tarraconensis that hasn't made an appearance yet. Lots of variation in the legend on this coin (see [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/400']RPC link[/URL]). The poet [URL='https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195389661/obo-9780195389661-0082.xml']Martial[/URL], born in Augusta Bilbilis when this coin was issued, writes of the region: [SIZE=3]"Fellow townsmen, born upon the steep slope of Augustan Bilbilis, which Salo [Jalón River] encompasses with its rapid waters, does the poetical glory of your bard afford you any pleasure? For my honour, and renown, and fame, are yours; nor does Verona, who would willingly number me among her sons, owe more to her tender Catullus." -Martial, [URL='http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/martial_epigrams_book10.htm']10.103, To his fellow townsmen of Bilbilis[/URL][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]"… you, Licinianus, will behold the lofty Bilbilis, renowned for horses and arms, and Catus venerable with his locks of snow, and eased Vadavero with its broken cliffs, and the sweet grove of delicious Botrodus, which the happy Pomona loves..." - Martial, [URL='http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/martial_epigrams_book01.htm']1.49, To Licinianus[/URL][/SIZE] [ATTACH=full]1240625[/ATTACH][SIZE=3] Image derived using a map by Augusta 89, [URL='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0']CC BY-SA 4.0[/URL], [URL='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carte_des_villes_voisines_de_Salduie_pendant_l%27Antiquit%C3%A9.svg']Wikimedia Commons[/URL] and a static image from [URL='https://www.google.com/maps/place/Aparcamiento+Augusta+B%C3%ADlbilis/@40.9460519,-8.0289261,5z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0xd5b8f9e9c1c2a2f:0xa87c28c5bcb54ef9!8m2!3d41.381498!4d-1.6112319']Google maps[/URL].[/SIZE] A view of the archeological site: [ATTACH=full]1240634[/ATTACH] [SIZE=2]Source: Berrozpe, L., Preciado, C., Manuel, M. (2011) [URL='https://doi.org/10.5944/etfi.4.2011.10752']Pictorical Novelties in Municipium Augusta Bilbilis: CIV Building[/URL][/SIZE] and the coin : [ATTACH=full]1240614[/ATTACH] [B]Hispania Tarraconensis, Augusta Bilbilis, Gaius (Caligula)[/B], AD 37-41, AE, C. Corn. Refec. and M. Helv. Fronto, duoviri [B]Obv:[/B] G CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS IMP R, Laureate head right [B]Rev: [/B]MVN AVG BILBIL C CORN REFEC M HELV FRONT, Legend around oak wreath containing II VIR [B]Ref: [/B]RPC I [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/400']400[/URL] [B]Note:[/B] Under Augustus, the city was given the status of [I]Municipium[/I] becoming Augusta Bilbilis which gave the inhabitants privileges that included rights of Roman citizenship.[/QUOTE]
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