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<p>[QUOTE="PMONNEY, post: 2955894, member: 82829"]<b> AVGVSTVS</b> Bare head r. “<b>CAESAR IMP VII”, </b>Rev.: “<b>ASIA RECEPTA”, </b>Victory standing l. holding weath, on cista mystica between two serpents erect. AR quinarius. Uncertain Italian mint, Brindisium, Rome.(?) 29-27 BC. Ref.: BMCRE 647, RSC 14. RCV 1568. <i>RIC I, 276 </i>Scarce. (13.5mm, 1.68 gr.). Marcantica,€.200</p><p><br /></p><p><i>The mystical cista or basket, of Bacchus was the symbol of proconsular Asia, which this coin declares to be “recepta ”, that is taken in possession of by Caesar. Victory is placed on the cista simply because, in the Roman mint, that figure was the perpetual type of the quinarius. Augustus “received” Asia within the sphere of his dominions when, in 30 BC either on his expedition into Egypt, or on his return to Asia, he tarried there to arrange public affairs, and also wintered in the country. Looking to the reverse side epitaph, ”ASIA RECEPTA ”, as well as to the title “IMP VII”: it is during Augustus Caesar 5th.Consulate that he became Imperator for the 7th.Time, the coin could not have been minted earlier than 29 BC </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="PMONNEY, post: 2955894, member: 82829"][B] AVGVSTVS[/B] Bare head r. “[B]CAESAR IMP VII”, [/B]Rev.: “[B]ASIA RECEPTA”, [/B]Victory standing l. holding weath, on cista mystica between two serpents erect. AR quinarius. Uncertain Italian mint, Brindisium, Rome.(?) 29-27 BC. Ref.: BMCRE 647, RSC 14. RCV 1568. [I]RIC I, 276 [/I]Scarce. (13.5mm, 1.68 gr.). Marcantica,€.200 [I]The mystical cista or basket, of Bacchus was the symbol of proconsular Asia, which this coin declares to be “recepta ”, that is taken in possession of by Caesar. Victory is placed on the cista simply because, in the Roman mint, that figure was the perpetual type of the quinarius. Augustus “received” Asia within the sphere of his dominions when, in 30 BC either on his expedition into Egypt, or on his return to Asia, he tarried there to arrange public affairs, and also wintered in the country. Looking to the reverse side epitaph, ”ASIA RECEPTA ”, as well as to the title “IMP VII”: it is during Augustus Caesar 5th.Consulate that he became Imperator for the 7th.Time, the coin could not have been minted earlier than 29 BC [/I][/QUOTE]
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