The Roman concept of the day: sulcus primigenius https://www.sullacoins.com/post/founding-of-colonies Post coin of Augustus, sulcus primigenius, or anything else your find interesting or entertaining.
A very enjoyable read, Sulla80, thanks for sharing. I wasn't aware of this. New coin requirement unlocked...
Another greatly informative and helpful post @Sulla80! THANKS!! Your RPC I 1656 is a wonderful specimen. As you know this series are often weakly struck and off-centered. Below is my best of the series. It's an RPC I 1660 (with a c/m as a bonus). Troas 50-54 AD Diam.: 17 mm Wt.: 3.7 g. Axis: 7h Howgego countermark: 303
Thanks for the kind words @philologus_1, I find that sometimes a simple coin with a good story can be very enjoyable. A nice Claudius (1660) with some very skinny looking priests. Starting colonies is hard work.
Absolutely true -- agreed! Yes, one of my first thoughts when I saw the coin was that the celator may have engraved the pair of bovine onto the die first, then realized there wasn't adequate remaining space for a pair of priests unless they were carved Twiggy-skinny. (One must be nearly as old as these coins to "get" the Twiggy-skinny reference.) BTW: I should have mentioned that the countermark on my 1660 is a Capricorn, which is interestingly closely associated with Caesar Augustus even though it was not his actual astrological birth sign.
Thank you for sharing. Fascinating topic and insightful presentation. Here on LI there is a town by which the borders were established by the distance a man could ride a bull in a day. At least that's the foundation myth.
AE 27 (Assarion) Achaea (Peloponnesos), Patrae, struck after 14 AD under Tiberius 8.709 g; RPC I 1253, BCD Peloponnesos 540-541, SNG Copenhagen 168, GIC 139; Ob.: DIVVS•AVGVSTVS•PATER Radiate head of Divus Augustus to left Rev.: COL•A•A / PATRENS Augustus, togate, holding staff and vexillum, standing left; two oxen walking left.
The post by @cmezner reminded me of this rather scarce Augustus in my collection: Galatia province; Lycaonia (region), Lystra (city). Augustus, 6 BC - AD 14 Bronze; Diam.: 26mm; Weight: 13.03 gr. Obv.: (IMPE A)VGVSTI, Laureate head left, cornucopiae behind Rev.: COL IVL FEI GEM (L)YSTR(A), Colonist ploughing left with two oxen Attrib.: RPC I 3538. (Schulten, 20 Oct. 1988, lot 599.)
I had a Spanish Caligula with a settler plowing behind oxen, but alas, no pix of it survive. It succumbed to bronze disease.