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Aureus - Augustus IOV TON, Jupiter
| Uitgever | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Jaar | 19 BC |
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| Gewicht | 7.8 g |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Bare head of Augustus facing right, rendered in fine high relief with detailed naturalistic hair arranged in characteristic Augustan fashion with comma-shaped locks above the brow. The truncation of the neck is visible at the lower field. A beaded border frames the design. The encircling legend reads CAESAR to the left and AVGVSTVS to the right, in crisp Latin capitals. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | CAESAR AVGVSTVS (Translation: Caesar Augustus.) |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
This aureus belongs to a group of issues struck around 19 BC, almost certainly at the Colonia Patricia mint in Spain — a traveling or field mint accompanying Augustus during his campaigns in the Iberian Peninsula and his subsequent administration of the western provinces. The attribution to RIC I 63A places it within a contested cluster of issues long debated for their precise mint assignment, as Spanish output from this period shares obverse die links with contemporary eastern production.
19 BC was politically charged: Augustus had just returned to Rome after securing the Parthian standards lost at Carrhae in 53 BC, an achievement presented as a diplomatic triumph but heavily mythologized as a military one.