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<p>[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 8174020, member: 87809"]The mint identity and reverse legend of the Augustan CA issues has long been discussed. For a survey of theories see RPC I, pp. 380-381. The inscription <i>CA</i> may refer to the stabilized <i>Commune Asiae</i>. This type shows a gift (a wreath) and the recipient, Octavian, it remained only to indicate the donor, and it seems hard to doubt that this was the Commune Asiae, as originally suggested many years ago and usually accepted until Grant’s major work appeared. Grant himself dismissed the equivalence: if these coins were in fact produced in Provincia Asia, they were produced in an area of immense size. The Commune Asiae is clearly attested on the coinage of Augustus showing the temple inscribed ROM ET AVG and flanked by COM ASIAE, and Grant suggested CA stands for Caesaris auctoritas, which other firmly reject. See:</p><p>Sutherland C. H.V. The symbolism of the early aes coinages under Augustus. In: Revue numismatique, 6e série - Tome 7, année 1965 pp. 94-109;</p><p>doi : <a href="https://doi.org/10.3406/numi.1965.927" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://doi.org/10.3406/numi.1965.927" rel="nofollow">https://doi.org/10.3406/numi.1965.927</a></p><p><a href="http://www.persee.fr/doc/numi_0484-8942_1965_num_6_7_927" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.persee.fr/doc/numi_0484-8942_1965_num_6_7_927" rel="nofollow">http://www.persee.fr/doc/numi_0484-8942_1965_num_6_7_927</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The entire CA and AVGVSTVS coinage of Augustus, some of which has been attributed to Asia Minor, was more likely from Cyprus. The brass and bronze coinage was struck for both internal use, and export, while Cyprus was his personal possession, not under the nominal control of the Senate, 30-22 BC, CA standing for Caesar Augustus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 8174020, member: 87809"]The mint identity and reverse legend of the Augustan CA issues has long been discussed. For a survey of theories see RPC I, pp. 380-381. The inscription [I]CA[/I] may refer to the stabilized [I]Commune Asiae[/I]. This type shows a gift (a wreath) and the recipient, Octavian, it remained only to indicate the donor, and it seems hard to doubt that this was the Commune Asiae, as originally suggested many years ago and usually accepted until Grant’s major work appeared. Grant himself dismissed the equivalence: if these coins were in fact produced in Provincia Asia, they were produced in an area of immense size. The Commune Asiae is clearly attested on the coinage of Augustus showing the temple inscribed ROM ET AVG and flanked by COM ASIAE, and Grant suggested CA stands for Caesaris auctoritas, which other firmly reject. See: Sutherland C. H.V. The symbolism of the early aes coinages under Augustus. In: Revue numismatique, 6e série - Tome 7, année 1965 pp. 94-109; doi : [URL]https://doi.org/10.3406/numi.1965.927[/URL] [URL]http://www.persee.fr/doc/numi_0484-8942_1965_num_6_7_927[/URL] The entire CA and AVGVSTVS coinage of Augustus, some of which has been attributed to Asia Minor, was more likely from Cyprus. The brass and bronze coinage was struck for both internal use, and export, while Cyprus was his personal possession, not under the nominal control of the Senate, 30-22 BC, CA standing for Caesar Augustus.[/QUOTE]
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