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As - Augustus VOLVSVS VALER MESSAL IIIVIR A A A F F S C
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 6 BC |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Obverse lettering | CAESAR AVGVST PONT MAX TRIBVNIC POT (Translation: Caesar Augustus, Pontifex Maximus, Tribunicia Potestate. Caesar Augustus, high priest, holder of tribunician power.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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This as belongs to the series issued under the tresviri monetales — junior magistrates appointed annually to oversee the mint — whose names appear prominently on the coinage as part of Augustus's deliberate restoration of Republican monetary form. The magistrate here, Volusius Valens Messalla, held his position during a period when Augustus was systematically reorganizing Rome's coinage after decades of civil war disruption. The S C formula, senatus consulto, formally attributed bronze and orichalcum coinage to senatorial authority, a constitutional fiction Augustus maintained carefully.