SPAIN, Colonia Patricia (Corduba). Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ As 26mm, 12.84g. Bare head left / COLONIA/ PATRICIA in two lines within oak wreath. ACIP 3357; RPC I 129.
Very Fine, green patina, earthen deposits.
Cordova, a city in Andalusia, was the first colony founded by the Romans in Spain. Its original name was Corduba. When it was made a Roman colony it was renamed Colonia Patricia, to honor the veterans and worthy men who settled it, to whom honor was due, as to Fathers (Patribus). Augustus visited Patricia in 15 or 14 B.C.
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