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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2944558, member: 76194&quot;]<b>#3 Roman Thug Life</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>He outmaneuvered the Anti-Caesarians, Mark Anthony, Cicero, Sextus Pompey, the Roman Senate and nobility, and anyone else who stood in his path to ultimate power.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]717681[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I&#039;m referring of course to the one and only Octavian Julius Caesar...also known as Augustus Julius Caesar.&nbsp; This coin is in my top 3 because I am in absolute love with the portrait.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]717684[/ATTACH] </p><p>AUGUSTUSAR silver denarius. Struck 2 BC - 14 AD. CAESAR AVGVSTVS DIVI F PATER PATRIAE, laureate head of Augustus right. Reverse - AVGVSTI F COS DESIG PRINC IVVENT, C L CAESARES in exergue, Caius and Lucius Caesars standing facing, shield and spears between them; simpulum and lituus above, X in middle field (Pd rather than the more usual b9). RSC 43. RCV 1597. 17mm, 3.6g. </p><p><br /></p><p><i>A scarcer variant with inverted lituus &amp; simpulum, as well as the X in the field between the boys.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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