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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8070691, member: 87809&quot;]Always was looking at aurei from Augustus, so beautiful!</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, it was in 2021 when I won this issue, after a &quot;hard battle&quot; with other bidders.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse has a cut a 9 o&#039;clock and surely there are better ones, but I am truly happy to have this one and only Augustus aureus in my collection:</p><p><br /></p><p>7.912 g, 18.73 x 18.65 mm, 12h</p><p>Lugdunum, 8 BC</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC I 200; Lyon 64 (unlisted dies); Calicó 235; BMCRE 492 = BMCRR Gaul 215; BN 1451-2; Biaggi 123; Mazzini 174;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: ΛVGVSTVS DIVI • F, laureate head right</p><p>Rev.: Jupiter Augustus, bareheaded and togate, seated left on curule chair set on low daïs, extending his r. hand toward a cloaked Gaul or German on left, standing right, presenting a child held out in both hands toward Augustus. IMP • XIIII in ex</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1399968[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Augustus&#039; fourteenth acclamation as <i>imperator </i>dates these issues to 8/7 BC, but the reference can only be to the event that predates these coin issues from the Lugdunum mint - Drusus died at the beginning of 9 BC. The date of issue means that they are part of a larger series that came out for Tiberius&#039; triumph in 8/7 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Augustus did pose as Jupiter&#039;s chosen intermediary in public ritual in Rome. At the celebration of his triumph of 8 AD in 12 AD, Tiberius mounted to the Capitolium, as specified in triumphal rite, to lay his laurels on the lap of Jupiter Capitolinus: but first, he fell at the knees of Augustus and did him homage in a totally unprecedented public ceremony that made Augustus a kind of pseudo-Jupiter, giver of victories (Suetonius, Tiberius, 20).</p><p><br /></p><p>Particularly, I like that the barbarian has a dignified posture, he is standing, and handing a little child over to the emperor&#039;s protection.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the time of emperor Augustus (from 27 BC to 14 AD) an aureus had considerable value. It was approximately worth one monthly wage and was enough to feed a family in Rome for one month.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please share your aurei you always dreamt of and are in your collection<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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