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As - Augustus P LVRIVS AGRIPPA IIIVIR A A A F F S C
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 7 BC |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The large senatorial monogram S C (Senatus Consultum) dominates the central field, rendered in bold relief with slightly stylized letterforms. A full circular Latin legend naming the moneyer Publius Lurius Agrippa in his capacity as Triumvir Monetalis runs around the entire periphery, separated from the edge by a border of small beads or rope moulding. The plain field around the S C contains no additional devices. The composition follows the standard Augustan bronze coinage reverse type established for the Roman mint production under senatorial authority. |
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Struck under the moneyer Lucius Naevius Surdinus — one of three tresviri monetales appointed annually to oversee the Roman mint — this issue reflects Augustus's deliberate restoration of the traditional magistracy after decades of civil war had effectively collapsed the Republican monetary apparatus. The tresviri had existed for centuries but their authority had been hollowed out under the triumviral period. Reactivating them with real issuing power was a calculated act of constitutional theater.
The S·C on the reverse was not mere decoration — it formally attributed authority for bronze coinage to the Senate, a distinction Augustus maintained scrupulously while retaining gold and silver for himself.