His month is here! I only own a couple of rough Provincial coins of Augustus - but hoping to obtain an Imperial with a nice portrait sometime in the future. Here is one... AE unit of Augustus 27 BC. - 14 AD., Philippi, Macedonia - bare head of Augustus right, AVG behind / two colonists (or priests?) ploughing right with yoke of oxen (3.12 grams, 16mm) Philippi (Colonia Julia Augusta Victrix Philippensis) which (St.Paul visited) was a Roman colony founded by Augustus after the famous battle of Philippi, fought between Antony and Octavius and Brutus and Cassius, in 42 BC. Please post your Augustus coins in honor of August (or as we call it in Canada "the month before hockey starts").
Here's an early Spanish mint of his. Augustus denarius 18 BC, Spanish mint (Colonia Partica?) Denarius AR 17mm., 3,48g. CAESAR AVGVSTO, laureate head right / S P -Q R, temple of Mars Ultor: round-domed, tetrastyle temple set on podium of three steps, within which is a chariot right, carrying an aquila and miniature galloping horses. RIC 119.
Clavdivs, I've posted this coin before but will post again in honor of the month of August. I sold this high relief portrait of Augustus at a Heritage auction 7 or 8 years ago.
A fairly typical bronze as: Rome mint, A.D. 11-12 Obv: IMP CAESAR DIVI F AUGVSTVS IMP XX Rev: PONTIF MAXIM TRIBVN POT XXXIII, encircling SC RIC 471 26mm, 9.4g.
Clavdivs, This is the only portrait coin I still have of Augustus (22 years old), on the reverse of a denarius of Mark Antony, struck at the Ephesus Mint, circa 41 BC, 21 mm, 4.03 gm.
AUGUSTUS AR Denarius. 3.64g, 19.9mm, Rome mint, 19-18 BC, P. Petronius Turpilianus, moneyer. RIC 297 (R2). O: CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head right. R: P PETRON TVRPILIAN III VIR, Pegasus walking right.
Happy Augustus Month! One of my faves to collect! Here's a couple from his moneyer series: Augustus, Ruled 27 BC – 14 AD AE As, Issued 15 BC by Cn. Piso, moneyer. Rome Mint Obverse: CAESAR•AVGVSTVS TRIBVNIC•POTEST•, bare head right. Reverse: CN•PISO•CN•F•IIIVIR•A•A•A•F•F•, legend surrounding large S•C. References: RIC 382, Sear 1681 Size: 28mm, 10.69g Augustus, Ruled 27 BC – 14 AD AE As, Issued 7 BC by Publius Lurius Agrippa, moneyer. Rome Mint Obverse: CAESAR•AVGVST•PONT•MAX TRIBVNIC POT; bare head of Augustus to right. Reverse: P•LVRIVS•AGRIPPA•IIIVIR•A•A•A•F•F•, legend surrounding large S•C. References: RIC 427, Sear 1686 Size: 29mm, 9.28g
Here's to the one who "found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble". It is intriguing though that the month of Sextillis was named after him when he was actually born in late September. By the way Claudius... I didn't know that hockey season EVER ended up there!
In his youth the guy was a devious, lying, cheating scoundrel, who, as Marc Antony put it, "Was a boy who owes everything to a name." And he was exactly what Rome needed to survive this trying and desperate time:
As a fellow Canadian I can tell you that Hockey season and beer season run together most months of the year. However, when there is no hockey, there is still beer.
Happy August everyone! Augustus in one of the heads on this coin... THRACE. Rhoemetalces I, with Pythodoris, Augustus, and Livia, 1st century AD O: Heads of Augustus, laureate, and Livia, conjoined right; to right, capricorn right, holding globe. R: Diademed head of Rhoemetalces and draped bust of Pythodoris, conjoined right. 27mm 13.8g
AUGY-AUGY - Doubletake... Righty and Lefty (or sinister...) RI Octavian as Augustus 25-23 BCE AR Quinarius RIGHT facing bust Emerita Augusta Sear 1642 Octavian as Augustus LEFT-Sinister 27 BC–14 AD Quinarius Emerita 25-23 AR 13.5mm 1.79g - P CARISI LEG Victory trophy C 387. RIC 1b SCARCE
octavius, What a spectacular group of Augustus coinage ! The butting bull & Nile crocodile denarii have always been favorites of mine .
Denarius of Octavian 39 B.C. Obv. Bare head of Octavian right slightly bearded. Rv. Caduceus with legend honoring Marc Antony. Cr 529/2a CRI 302 3,14 grms 17mm
Wow, fantastic coins. All I have of the man is this one with Antony that doesn't look much like the young Octavian... And this one as emperor Augustus with a nice stylized portrait
