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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7951983, member: 110350&quot;]Finally a request that isn&#039;t too obscure for the likes of me!</p><p><br /></p><p>The Triumvirs, Octavian, AR Denarius, Autumn 30-Summer 29 BC, Italian (Rome?) Mint. Obv. Bare head right, anepigraphic / Rev. Octavian’s Actian arch (<i>arcus Octaviani</i>), showing a single span surmounted by statute of Octavian in facing triumphal quadriga; IMP • CAESAR on the architrave. CRI 422 (ill. p. 257) [D. Sear, <i>The History and Coinage of the Roman Imperators</i> 49-27 BC (1998)]; RIC I 267 (Augustus); RSC 123 (Augustus); Sear RCV I 1558, BMCRR 4348 (= BMCRE 624). Toned, scratches, some scrapes, and banker&#039;s marks. Fine. 21mm, 3.25 g, 3 h. <i>From the Lampasas Collection. Ex. Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 487, Lot 474 (10 March 2021); ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 390, Lot 456 (1 February 2017).*</i></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/version-2-combined-octavian-from-group-photos-jpg.1364379/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>*See CRI pp. 257-258: “Prior to excavations in the Roman Forum in 1950-53 the size of the arch depicted on the second of the architectural denarii in the IMP CAESAR series [see also No. 421, RIC 266] remained uncertain. It is known that the Senate had decreed arches at Rome and Brundisium to commemorate Octavian&#039;s victory at Actium, but the remains discovered in 1888 near the temple of Divus Julius were of a triple arch which did not accord well with the appearance of the coin type. Further investigation on the site eventually revealed traces of an earlier single span structure which may be identified as Octavian&#039;s Actium arch. This had evidently been demolished little more than a decade after its erection when the much larger triple span <i>arcus Augusti </i>was constructed in 19 BC in honour of Augustus&#039; recovery from the Parthians of the legionary standards lost by Crassus and Antony.” [Footnotes omitted.]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next: another Octavian with an anepigraphic obverse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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