OTD: 63 BCE Augustus, the final straw to break the republics back, is born. Post yours!

I haven’t seen one of these earlier As series with that many dots between the SC. Thanks for sharing.

 

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The only response I can make, apart from having "liked" your comment, is to thank you for providing an answer to a question that I had had for some time. I'm glad that I'm not the only person who's noticed this, and that it's not my imagination or a random product of the coins I happen to see most!

 

Stunning LUCO AUGUSTI!
I've read it is a maze on the reverse. Never but never heard of a Rodela shield thanks for sharing.
Here's my version:

 

Glad you like it. In ACIP, it is described as a round shield in English and escut rodo in Catalan - I suspect Rodelo (per the seller) is a corruption of this.

 

Augustus' heir and successor:

"Tiberius Portrayed as Heir." Augustus, with Tiberius as Caesar. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (18mm; 3.49 gm; 12h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 13-14. Obv: CAESAR AVGVSTVS DIVI F PATER PATRIAE, laureate head right. Rev: TI • CAESAR • AVG • F • TR • POT • XV •, bare head of Tiberius right. RIC I 226; Lyon 88; RSC 2 (Tiberius and Augustus); BMCRE 507; BN 1682-4. Like Triton XI, Lot: 863.

 

@Ryro ....

 

"Sulla80": Yes, you are correct-Macrobius! I actually had to go to the University Library to look at it for myself-both quotes. Nowadays, it is probably online-I don't know. Great handle: "Sulla"!-"Don't pay attention to the screams outside". 'Just taking care of a few miscreants'

 

Who can write a dissertation on the coin they assign a number to...yet ignore an answer to a question they posed? Odd - but we continue...


AE unit of Augustus 27 BC. - 14 AD., Philippi, Macedonia - bare head of Augustus right, AVG behind / two colonists (or priests?) ploughing right with yoke of oxen (3.12 grams, 16/15 mm)


More fantastic Augustus please!!

 

If you mean me, I didn't ignore your response. Look again. And cool it with the insults. I get tired of them.