Clunia



   CLUNIA -- a town of Hispania Tarraconensis, now Corunna del Conte, in Old Castile, situate on the river Durius (Douro). -- Clunia was a city of the Arevaci, according to Pliny. And by Ptolemy it is called a colony. Dion (L.3, p. 115), mentions Clunia, "in an attack on which city (he states) Metullus overthrew the revolted Hispani." Clunia was also the city where Galba, pro-consul of Spain in the latter part of Nero 's reign, commenced his proceedings for resisting the tyranny of that emperor, and for assuming himself the imperial title, power, and authority.
   There is an autonomous small brass (see Akerman, Coins of Hispania, p.85), which bears on its obverse a male head, with a dolphin before it; and on its reverse CLOVNIOQ, with a horseman. The other coins of this place are second brass, having on their obverses the head of Tiberius, on their reverses the legend CLVNIA, together with the names of the monetary quatuoviri, by whom they were struck, under that emperor. The type on all, with varieties, is a bull standing; the usual symbol of Romano-Spanish colonies and municipia, although Clunia itself is not designated on any of them as either one or the other. -- See engraving in Medailles de Christine, p.306, xlviii. also in Morell. Impp. vol. iii. TAB. ix.
 
  Rasche (in Lex. Num. vol. i. part 2), places amongst the coinage of Clunia, the celebrated first brass of Galba, inscribed HISPANIA CLVNIA SVL(PICIA). But that is of Roman die, struck Senatus Consulto, and belongs to the imperial series, properly so called. -- See Hispania.


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