Ave Caesar!

And, I found one of my Quinarii as a follow up denomination...

Augustus Quinarius
25-23 BCE
Sear 1642

 

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Excellent coin!

 

OH! And since you showed his Military Statue, I will show my CIVILIAN Augustus Statuette that I keep in my home office...

 

My favorite Augustus is a fourree with quadriga on arch reverse. It has great seams (obverse field) and enough core exposure to avoid being ugly but still define just what it is to be a fourree. The legend on the arch IMP CAESAR places this 30-27BC before Octavian became Augustus.

 

Okay, fine ... you twisted my rubber-arm

=> here is my other semi-cool Augustus example ...

Augustus AE Quadrans, Lamia/Silia/Annius
Around S.C. & Simpulum/Lituus

 

Okay, okay ,okay ... geesh, back-off

I'll show one more of my sweet Augustus babies ... but this is it!!

Divus Augustus, AE Sestertius
Car being hauled by 4 elephants & SC






... man, I "love" that coin (elephant coins are so cool, eh?)

 

oh sorry => doug, yah I think your fourree coin is fricken amazing!! (sooo cool)

I love the way the ponies are changing their spots!! ...

=> they're becoming Pinto ponies!!

 

Thats cool

I should have a Elagabalus with all the coins I have bought of him lately.

 

That's awesome, Alegandalf => man, there seems to be some pretty random "stuff" in your basement, eh? (very cool man's storage area => well played)

... ummm, is that a big grenade on the floor?



Oh, and please explain the sweet box o' rocks in the bottom left corner (or are they shells?) ..... again, full-points for that cool storage area (looks like fun stuff)

Cheers, coin-bro

 

Alegandalf.

 

LOL an EVIL statue!

 

Very true.

I like em bad .

 

Hmmm...well, it is one shelf of two full bookshelves of "schtuff" I have collected in my travels. Kinda like eclectic items. My office is upstairs, so my man-cave is in the clouds...
Yup, grenade...have a fragment grenade on the other bookshelf. Rocks...one is a rubber rock (freaks people out when I toss it to them). Rock box is a Zen box.

 

And good riddance to the Res Publica!
AVE CAESAR!!

That's pretty cool!

 

Ave, princeps!


AUGUSTUS
AE As
10.88g, 30mm
Rome mint, AD 11-12
RIC 471
O: IMP CAESAR DIVI F AVGVSTVS IMP XX, bare head of Augustus left.
R: PONTIF MAXIM TRIBVN POT XXXIIII around large S C.


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.

 

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS !!!

 

"A multitude of rulers is not a good thing; let there be one ruler, one KING."~ The Iliad

 

Like Kim Jong Un, or maybe his father Kim Jong Il, or perhaps HIS father Kim Il-sung...Dear Leaders all.

 

Touché my good man!
You may have a point....


Thank the gods for secular republics!

 

I hate dictators. It's partly why I don't collect Roman Imperial with a bunch of kings on the coins.

I only have one Augustus issue, though I've got a bunch of Octavians when there was still some small hope that Rome wouldn't slide into a permanent monarchy. In my mind, my coin marks the end of the promise of a Roman Republic in my collection, with a single portrait of the Dear Leader on the front and some bastardized beast on the back (yes, I do know what it is). I think it's an appropriate symbol of what had happened to Roman society as they embraced a political system that would very soon bring them Caligula and many like him until the disastrous end.

Same kind of people we suffer today, just we have faster internet and microwave food.