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<p>[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 7279501, member: 87809"]Have to squeeze in one of Agustus <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>AE 24, Macedon, Amphipolis, 27 BC - 14 AD</p><p>24 x 21 mm, 7.885 g</p><p>RPC I 1627; SNG Copenhagen 94;</p><p><br /></p><p>The reference says "being crowned by male figure", maybe the figure is Divus Julius Caesar. A cowning ofAugustus by Divus Julius can be also seen on RPC I 1650, SNG Cop 283, a coin auctioned at AMCC, Lot 68, Auction 1 (a beauty which I could not win <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, so I got myself this one)</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: ΑΜ(ΦΙ)ΠO-ΛΕΙΤΩΝ, draped bust of Artemis Tauropolis right wearing stephane, with bow and quiver over shoulder; circle of dots</p><p>Rev.: ΚΑΙΣΑΡ [ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟ]Σ, statue of Augustus in military dress raising arm, standing left on dais decorated with three bucrania, and being crowned by male figure (Divus Julius Caesar?) wearing toga; circle of dots</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1275539[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1275540[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 7279501, member: 87809"]Have to squeeze in one of Agustus :D AE 24, Macedon, Amphipolis, 27 BC - 14 AD 24 x 21 mm, 7.885 g RPC I 1627; SNG Copenhagen 94; The reference says "being crowned by male figure", maybe the figure is Divus Julius Caesar. A cowning ofAugustus by Divus Julius can be also seen on RPC I 1650, SNG Cop 283, a coin auctioned at AMCC, Lot 68, Auction 1 (a beauty which I could not win :D, so I got myself this one) Ob.: ΑΜ(ΦΙ)ΠO-ΛΕΙΤΩΝ, draped bust of Artemis Tauropolis right wearing stephane, with bow and quiver over shoulder; circle of dots Rev.: ΚΑΙΣΑΡ [ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟ]Σ, statue of Augustus in military dress raising arm, standing left on dais decorated with three bucrania, and being crowned by male figure (Divus Julius Caesar?) wearing toga; circle of dots [CENTER][ATTACH=full]1275539[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1275540[/ATTACH][/CENTER][/QUOTE]
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