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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4984531, member: 99456&quot;]When buying, look carefully as there are also restitution issues (rare) from the time of Trajan or Hadrian, where the lituus has a split base and is turned to the right, and the simpulum is large, bulbous, and turned to the left, not seen on the issues of Augustus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my Augustus denarius (not a restitution issue) which also varies in detail of the pontifical items - it is like the one posted by [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], and [USER=99177]@Marsman[/USER] and different from the other two posted so far.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1197487[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Augustus</b>, 27 BC-14 AD, AR denarius, Lugdunum (Lyon) mint, struck 2 BC-4 AD. <b>Obv:</b> CAESAR AVGVSTVS - DIVI F PATER PATRIAE, Laureate head right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> AVGVSTI F COS DESIG PRINC IVVENT, Gaius and Lucius standing, facing; shield and spears between them; simpulum (right) and lituus (left) above</p><p><b>Ref:</b> RIC I <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.207" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.207" rel="nofollow">207</a></p><p><b>Note: </b>the simpulum, sign of priesthood, an &quot;insignia pontificalia&quot; used at sacrifices to make libations and the lituus Augurum, the augural staff, symbolizing Augustus as the Roman people&#039;s link with the gods</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Grandchildren for sale:</b> All may know that this was issued to commemorate the adoption of Gaius and Lucius Caesars, the grandsons of Augustus by Marcus Agrippa &amp; Augustus&#039; daughter Julia, heirs to the throne.&nbsp;&nbsp; However - did you know that he &quot;bought&quot; them from their father in a ritual &quot;purchase&quot; that involves touching a balance (libra) 3 times with a with an As, in the presence of the praetor?</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Augustus*.html#64" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Augustus*.html#64" rel="nofollow">Seutonius</a> writes: </b>&quot;Gaius and Lucius he adopted at home, privately buying them from their father by a symbolic sale, and initiated them into administrative life when they were still young, sending them to the provinces and the armies as consuls elect. In bringing up his daughter and his granddaughters he even had them taught spinning and weaving, and he forbade them to say or do anything except openly and such as might be recorded in the household diary.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The second sentence an interesting thought on good governance/citizenship with modern equivalent: never do or say anything you wouldn&#039;t want to read about on the front page of the newspaper.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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