The Roman Empire Begins

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  1. Okidoki

    Okidoki Well-Known Member

    954 P Hadrian RPC1441A.jpg Bing my coin friend an interesting topic, :D

    Restitution issue under Hadrian

    Hadrian, Cistophorus Uncertain mint in Asia Minor 128 AD Hadrian standing

    Reference.
    unpublished; RPC III, 1441var. on reverse legend; RIC 532 var.; C. 576 var. (Augustus); Metcalf, Cistophori of Hadrian 92 var.

    Person Augustus (under Hadrian) (Divus)

    Obv. IMP CAESAR AVGVSTVS
    Head of Augustus r.

    Rev. HADRIANVS AVGGVSTVS REN (sic)
    Hadrian togate standing half-left, holding grain stalk in right and roll in left in toga.

    9.89 gr
    27 mm
    6h

    Note.
    Peus auction 420 lot 305
    Sammlung Dr. Neussel Nr. 385
     
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  3. Marsyas Mike

    Marsyas Mike Well-Known Member

    Nice coins in this post. Here's my only presentable Octavian - I bought this back in 1994 when I only made a few purchases a year and my standards were higher. I like the Elvis sideburns - still mourning for Caesar by not shaving?

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    Roman Imperatorial Denarius
    Octavian / Q Salvius, moneyer
    (40 B.C.)
    Military Mint in Italy

    C CAESA[R III] VR R P C, bare head of Octavian right, / Q SALVVS IMP COS
    D[ESIG], around thunderbolt.
    Crawford 523/1a;
    Sydenham 1326b.
    (3.58 grams / 18 mm)
     
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  4. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    Octavian

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    RImp Marc Antony & Octavian AR Quinarius 1.58g Military Mint Gaul 39BCE Concordia r Hands clasped caduceus Cr-529-4b Sear 1575 Syd-1195


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    RImp Antony-Octavian AR Denarius 41 BCE 3.65g 18.7mm Military mint Syria star Craw 528-2a Sear 1507


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    RI Octavian as Augustus 25-23 BCE AR Quinarius RIGHT facing bust Emerita Augusta Sear 1642


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    Octavian as Augustus LEFT-Sinister 27 BCE –14 CE Quinarius Emerita 25-23 AR 13.5mm 1.79g - P CARISI LEG Victory trophy C 387. RIC 1b SCARCE


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    RImp Octavian 27BC-14AD AR DenEnarius mint 32-31 BC Bare head, CAESAR DIVI Mercury lyre RIC 257


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    RImp Octavian AR Quinarius 29-28 BCAsia Recepta Victory Cista Snakes Sear 1568

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    Imitating Octavian-M. Porcius Cato AR quinarius 13.89 mm 1.29g imitating Octavian r blundered legend - Victory seated r patera Cr 343-462 R


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  5. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    AUGUSTUS

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    RI Augustus oak crown Agrippa rostral crown L AE Dupondius 26mm 12.6g 10-14CE Nemausus chained Croc snake wreaths RIC I 158


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    Augustus As four countermarks 25-23 mm 9.8g TICA AVG probably for Tiberius Augustus CE14-37 Dolphin


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    RI Augustus AR Denarius struck 2 BC-14 AD Caius and Lucius Caesars stdg shield spear Sear 1578


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    RI Augustus 27BC-AD14 Æ20 5.5g 12h Apameia Phrygia Magistrate Attalos c 15BC Two corn-ears above maeander Labyrinth pattern RPC I, 3125 SCARCE





    His Wacky Wife:

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    RI Alexandria Livia, w Augustus Diobol CE 1-2 Æ 23.5mm 7.46g. Rev. Athena holding Nike Sheild ex Dattari-Savio Pl. 3 60-this coin RPC pag. 692-5-this coin RARE
     
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  6. cwart

    cwart Senior Member Supporter

    My only Augustus coin, a Christmas present from my wife this past Christmas... :)

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    Fouree of Augustus Denarius
    15-13 BCE
    Obv: DIVI F AUGUSTUS
    Rev: The Actian Apollo standing left holding plectrum and lyre.
    Sear 1611, RIC 171a
     
  7. Archeocultura

    Archeocultura Well-Known Member

    RIC 37b The famous comet that was supposed to be the deified Julius Caesar I Augustus 037b denarius comet 3-109.jpg
     
  8. Cucumbor

    Cucumbor Well-Known Member

    Favorite ?
    Mmmmmmh, same as if you asked for my favorite kid, I guess


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    Octavian and Agrippa (Arausio dupondius) - 30 BCE :
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    Augustus - 19/18 BCE :
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  9. Cucumbor

    Cucumbor Well-Known Member

    Augustus - 12 BCE :
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    Augustus - after 10 BCE :
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  10. Limes

    Limes Well-Known Member

    Lovely coins displayed here. I have shown my Augustus coins before somewhere, for sure. But I love showing them again (and I need to update some photo's...).

    One of my first coins. Not a lifetime issue, but with a magnificant portrait:
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    This type commemorates his victory over Mark Antony and Cleopatra of Egypt in 31 BC, thereby establishing his total power over the Roman empire and marking the shift from Republic to Empire.
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    This is a fascinating non-portrait issue (there are cool too!). I did a small write up about it here.
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    And a lovely croc too! The paws make it look like a bunny, actually.
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  11. ancient coin hunter

    ancient coin hunter 3rd Century Usurper

  12. Deacon Ray

    Deacon Ray Artist & Historian Supporter

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  13. cmezner

    cmezner do ut des Supporter

    @ancient coin hunter maybe humble, but I think one doesn't find it very often...
    here is mine:

    Rome, 15 BC, Calpurnius Piso, moneyer
    25 x 26 mm, 10.66 g
    Ref.: RIC 382; C. 1st Edition 413; BMC 137-138; CBN 448;
    Ob.: CAESAR•AVGVSTVS•TRIBVNIC•POTEST• Bare head right
    Rev.: CN•PISO•CN•F•III•VIR•A•A•A•F•F around large S•C

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  14. cmezner

    cmezner do ut des Supporter

    And a few more:

    Cistophorus, Capricorn with curved tail
    Ionia, Ephesus, struck ca. 25-20 BC
    25 x 26 mm, 11.77 g
    Ref.: RIC² 477; RPC I 2213; CBN 916; RSC 16;

    Ob.: IMP• - CAE - SAR Bare head of Augustus to right
    Rev.: AVGVSTVS Capricorn right, head left, carrying cornucopia on back; all within laurel wreath

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    Æ Dupondius, Colonia Romula (Sevilla), struck after 14 AD under Tiberius
    33 x 34 mm, 25.52 g
    Ref.: RPC I 73; SGI 189; Heiss 393, 2; Cohen 169, 3; Vives pl. CLXVII, 2; Alvarez-Burgos 1587; NAH 1060; SNG Tubingen 118; SNG Copenhagen 421.

    Ob.: COL ROM PERM DIVI AVG Radiate head of Divus Augustus right; six-rayed star above, thunderbolt r.
    Rev.: IVLIA AVGVSTA GENETRIX ORBIS head of Livia left, set on globe, crescent above
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    Æ Dupondius, Gallia, Nemausus ca. 27- 9 BC
    24 x 25 mm, 13.89 g
    Ref.: RIC 154 - 156; Sear 1728; RPC 522
    Class I or an early class II type

    Ob.: IMP DIVI•F Heads of Agrippa (left) and Augustus (right) back to back, Agrippa wearing a short beard, a combined rostral crown and laurel wreath and Augustus bare-headed. Both heads crested
    Rev.: COL•NEM Crocodile chained to palm-shoot with tip to right; above on left wreath with long ties

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    Æ22, Rhoemetalkes I and queen Pythodoris with Augustus
    Thrace, ca. 11 BC - 12 AD, Countermark X?
    22 mm, 10 g
    Ref.: RPC 1711; Youroukova 204;

    Ob.: BAΣIΛEΩS POIMHTAΛKOY Jugate heads of Rhoemetalkes, with diadem, and his queen Pythodoris, draped, right.
    Rev.: ΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ Bare head of Augustus right. Countermark X?
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    and this one, which I happily won in 2019 at the February, 6th cng e-auction after some "bidding fight":

    AR Drachm, Lycian League, Myra, Masicytus, ca. 28/27-19/18 BC
    17.5 mm, 3.16 g, 12 h
    Ref.: Troxell 119.6 Period IV, Plate 23; RPC I 3309; SNG von Aulock 4356
    Ob.: Λ – [Y] Bare head of Augustus right
    Rev.: M - A flanking two lyres, pellet between; plectrum above

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    It has long been recognized that the Lycian League's coins of Augustus's time show that Lycia, while still nominally free, was already by that time for all practical purposes a part of the Roman Empire. Warren in 1863 remarked, "The Augustan denarius [drachm] of Massikytes. . . illustrates well the position of federalism in Lycia under Augustus, a Roman dependency that still retained its own laws and internal government."
     
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  15. Archeocultura

    Archeocultura Well-Known Member

  16. Mat

    Mat Ancient Coincoholic

    My favorite Augustus coin

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    Augustus (27 BC-14 AD)
    AR Tetradrachm
    Syria-Antiochia ad Orontem
    O: KAIΣAPOΣ ΣEB_AΣTOY, Laureate head right
    R: ETOYΣ-ZK-NIKHΣ, Tyche seated right on rocks, palm branch in left hand, river god Orontes swimming right below, YPA monogram, IB / ANT monogram in right field Regnal Year 27 (5/4 BC), COS 12.
    27mm
    14.06g
    Prieur 51; RPC 4152; McAlee 181
    Ex David Hendin, 2004

    Note: The ZK breaking the reverse legend is the regnal year 27, IB is for consulship 12. Minted in what is possibly the year of the birth of Jesus Christ.
     
  17. cmezner

    cmezner do ut des Supporter

    Don't know if I can post this here:shy:, my apologies if it should be in a different thread.

    By chance, I found a very interesting book "The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus", by Paul Zanker, professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Munich, translated by Alan Shapiro, professor of Archaeology at the John Hopkins University, and published by The University of Michigan Press.

    In this book Zanker discusses and illustrates images of art and architecture of the Augustan period, including wonderful Augustus coins, some of which I haven't even seen anywhere before.
    Zanker doesn't give any attributions of coins, but seeing those images is just awesome.:)
     
  18. ancient coin hunter

    ancient coin hunter 3rd Century Usurper

    It's true also that some of the themes of Augustus' Res Gestae are echoed in coins.
     
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