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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clavdivs, post: 3631362, member: 93702&quot;]His month is here! </p><p>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...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]973991[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>AE unit of Augustus 27 BC. - 14 AD., Philippi, Macedonia</b> - bare <b>head</b> of Augustus <b>right</b>, AVG behind / <b>two colonists</b> (or priests?) <b>ploughing</b> right with <b>yoke of oxen</b> <b>(3.12 grams, 16mm)</b> </p><p><br /></p><p>Philippi (<b>Colonia Julia Augusta Victrix Philippensis</b>) which (St.Paul visited) was a <b>Roman colony founded by Augustus</b> after the famous <b>battle of Philippi</b>, fought between <b>Antony and Octavius</b> and <b>Brutus and Cassius</b>, in 42 BC. </p><p><br /></p><p>Please post your Augustus coins in honor of August (or as we call it in Canada &quot;the month before hockey starts&quot;).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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