Augustus denarius

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Actually there are no rules so you get to define what your 12 Caesars set is.

 

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Don't get me wrong, the Caligula may end up being a 4-5 year journey. I'm in no real hurry to complete the whole set. There are still tons of Roman Emperors and Empresses, Middle Eastern kingdoms, and medieval kings and queens that I don't have a single coin for. I suspect I'd prefer to fill some of those holes a little more before deciding to start to save for the big purchases like a Claudius or a Caligula.

 

You can buy a beautiful, eastern mint cistophorus of Claudius in nice condition for a fraction of the cost of a Rome denarius. Just sayin'...

 

@Carausius

That is a truly superb example. It is certainly better than my 2 Claudian denarii.

 

Yes, those cistophorii are amazing, wish I had one... also wish I had any version, common or scarce, of the OP coin. One of those is the only order I ever lost in the mail.

Denarius, Colonia Patricia in Spain, depicting the Corona Civica awarded to Augustus for saving the Republic (a bit ironic, that...):


And a tetradrachm from Antioch, 4 to 3 BC:

 

Very nice addition Sallent. I've got a pretty beat up example

I've also got a small collection of Augustus bronze coins from Spain going on but only the one photographed so far. I'll post them some day.

 

One thing that amazes me about his coins is all the different portrait styles (as evidenced by all the coins in this thread) and how much they vary. And it's not his age that's the issue, as he was always portrayed as a youngish man even in old age.

I'm not surprised that @Severus Alexander 's tet is so lifelike that you can compare him to surviving busts of Augustus and it would be obvious who he was. I find some eastern provincial coins to have that quality (not just for Augustus but other emperors as well), much more than the styles of portraits from the Roman mint. There is some interesting variety within the Roman mint as to the style of portrait, even in coins with the same theme (ie. same issue).

My coin's style in a way reminds me a little of @ro1974 's sestertius from Pergamum. What do you think? Both have a nose you could use as a machete to cut sugar cane with. Still, compared to Flavian noses, these are still rather tame. Poor Flavians had noses you could use as ice picks for mountain climbing.

 

Very nice Augustus, sallent. One of these is somewhere on the perennial want list.


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 T]VRPILIAN III VIR, Pegasus walking right.

 

He certainly did seem to have quite a range. This is another from Spain.

My pictures don't do this coin justice but I just can't get a good one of it. It really does have that glitter to it.
After looking up more on this coin, since wildwinds description was kind of weird and I don't have RPC, I found that CNG has this type as
C. Laetilius Apalus and Ptolemy, King of Mauretania, duoviri quinquennales. Bare head right / C LAETILIVS APALVS II V Q, REX/PTOL in two lines across field within diadem
So that's pretty neat because I was just looking up coins of Ptolemy a week ago.

 

I've shown it before, but this strange portrait dupondius from a Gallic or Italian mint makes me smile:

AUGUSTUS (OCTAVIAN)
AE Dupondius
OBVERSE: CAESAR DIVI F, bare head of Octavian right
REVERSE: DIVOS IVLIVS, wreathed head of Julius Caesar right
Gallic or Italian mint 38 BC
30mm; 17.90 g
CR535/v1, RPC620v

 

That is an absolutely lovely coin, Carausius! What a great portrait!

 

Whichever is cheaper is good enough for me. I guess it has to have a portrait and be contemporary to the emperor's reign to count in my set. It does not matter where it was made.

 

Oh, wait... I have an Augustus I can post!

He looked young, even after death. This one was struck under Tiberius to commemorate his kinda-father.

 

Very nice coin!

 

A few more denarii of Augustus

 

AVGVSTVS:


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


RI Augustus DIVUS under Tiberius 22-23 CE Radiate Alter


RI Augustus 25-23 BCE AR Quinarius Emerita Augusta Sear 1642

 

OCTAVIAN:


RImp Octavian 27BC-14AD AR Denarius mint 32-31 BC Bare Caesar Divi Mercury lyre RIC 257


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

 

Here is a sassy lil' Spanish number ...

=> descarado Augustus

 

Great Op coin, congrats!!!!! And all ya alls others look great too!

Augustus / Capricorn, Denarius

 

Such a humble guy, this Augustus fella. He made sure the coin said in large letters that he is DIVI FILIUS ...Ie. "My father is a God." What piety. Clearly the humblest person who ever lived.

Que descarado ese Augustus. Translation: Augustus is sassy.

@stevex6 although descarado in a certain context can mean sassy, be aware that in other context it can also be used in an insulting manner to say someone is shameless, or an action is blatant or flagrant.

For example, if I say someone is descarado in a friendly jovial tone, it means they are sassy. But if I say it in a serious or aggressive tone, I'm insulting them and calling them shameless. Spanish can be weird like that.

So you should be careful when you use it, especially around someone who speaks Spanish, because if said in the wrong context it can go from being a playful quip to something much more serious and offensive.