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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eparch, post: 7903292, member: 89211&quot;][USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] - glad you are now into Octavian&#039;s coins. I have been collecting them for many years, (but still only have very few !)partly for the historical interest and partly for their aesthetic appeal, especially those which are anepigramic on the obverse - so much more pleasing than the clutter on later imperial coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>My example of your coin with my note about it</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1364618[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The novel thing about the Actian Arch was that it was conspicuously decorated as a monument for the celebration of a military triumph. This effect was mainly achieved by setting a triumphal quadriga on top of the arch. Herein lay a decisive difference between this arch and older Republican arch monuments, such as the Fornix Fabianus at the Forum. Before the battle at Actium, victorious generals and admirals were honoured through the erection of honorific statues and columns (sometimes decorated with naval rams; see <a href="http://www.digitales-forum-romanum.de/gebaeude/columnae-rostratae-augusti/?lang=en" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.digitales-forum-romanum.de/gebaeude/columnae-rostratae-augusti/?lang=en" rel="nofollow">Columnae rostratae of Augustus</a>; <a href="http://www.digitales-forum-romanum.de/gebaeude/comitium/?lang=en" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.digitales-forum-romanum.de/gebaeude/comitium/?lang=en" rel="nofollow">Comitium</a>). Moreover, the victorious triumphators donated their spoils – such as the rams of the defeated fleets or their enemies’ shields – as decoration for the structures on the Forum (see e.g. <a href="http://www.digitales-forum-romanum.de/gebaeude/rostra-augusti/?lang=en" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.digitales-forum-romanum.de/gebaeude/rostra-augusti/?lang=en" rel="nofollow">Rostra Augusti</a>; <a href="http://www.digitales-forum-romanum.de/gebaeude/tabernae/?lang=en" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.digitales-forum-romanum.de/gebaeude/tabernae/?lang=en" rel="nofollow">Tabernae</a>) in order to showcase their military victory. However, the erection of an arch monument in order to explicitly commemorate a triumph was a sensational novelty in the Forum.</p><p><br /></p><p>This makes it clear how rigorously the ideological celebration of the victory at Actium was planned. Octavian continued a tradition which had been practised since the middle Republic, namely, erecting honorific monuments on the Forum for individuals who had been victorious in battle. However, he was the first to link the honorific arch closely to the triumphal celebration. The great significance of this honorific monument is attested by the fact that its erection was ordered by the Senate: that is, the Senate officially sanctioned and legitimised Octavian’s victory in the civil war – and this act of legitimisation was visible in permanent form to everybody in the Forum.</p><p><br /></p><p>and a couple more</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1364619[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Victory bust right, wings spread</p><p><br /></p><p>CAESAR - DIVI F&nbsp; to either side of</p><p>Neptune (?) standing left,right foot on globe, holding sceptre and aplustre</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 256</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1364620[/ATTACH]</p><p>Octavian AR Denarius. Italian mint (Rome?), autumn 30 - summer 29 BC.</p><p>&nbsp;Laureate head of Apollo Actius right</p><p>/ Octavian, veiled and in priestly robes, ploughing right with team of oxen; IMP•CAESAR in exergue.</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 272; CRI 424; RSC 117.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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