Catalogos:
RPC 65 ; Alvarez Burgos 1683 ; SNG Cop. 417 ; SNG Tübingen 108-9 ; FAB
1250 ; F. Chaves Tristan, Las monedas de Italica (2nd ed., 1978), 115
ff.
"The city of Italica (north of modern day Santiponce, 9 km NW of
Seville, Spain) was founded in 206 BC by the Roman general Publius
Cornelius Scipio Africanus in order to settle Roman soldiers wounded in
the Battle of Ilipa, where the Carthaginian army was defeated during
the Second Punic War. The name Italica bound the colonia to their
Italian origins. At Augustus´and Tiberius´reign the city was already a
municipium civium romanorum. Italica was the birthplace of Roman
Emperors Trajan and Hadrian. Marcus Ulpius Trajan was born in the city
in 53AD as was his successor, Aelius Hadrian in 76AD. Hadrian was
generous to his home town, which he made a colonia. The city's Roman
population at the time is estimated to have been only 80000."
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