Tiberius Minucius Augurinus served as moneyer in 134 BCE, the same year of the consulship of Scipio Aemilianus and the final siege of Numantia in Spain. This was also only a year before Tiberius Gracchus would trigger the social and political upheavals that would eventually lead to the fall of the Republic. The Minucii Augurinii were a branch of the ancient Minucian gens and the coins minted under Tiberius were used to promote the family’s deep legacy. The reverse of this particular type displays a togatus (or toga wearing man) holding a lituus on the reverse. This scene demonstrates the family's history of holding religious offices. In fact, the cognomen Augurinus itself suggests ancestral connections to the augurate.