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Aureus - Augustus IOVIS TONANTIS, Jupiter
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 19 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Augustus facing right, rendered in fine idealised portraiture with naturalistic facial features and a laurel wreath of oak leaves crowning the brow. The effigy is boldly struck in high relief, displaying the emperor's characteristic aquiline nose and strong jaw. The legend AVGVSTVS runs along the lower field in incuse Latin capitals. The design is framed by a neat border of beads encircling the entire obverse field. |
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| Reverse description | Jupiter Tonans standing left within a hexastyle temple, his nude figure rendered with classical gravitas; he holds a thunderbolt in his raised right hand and leans upon a long vertical sceptre with his left. The temple facade is depicted with six columns and an elaborately detailed pediment, commemorating the Temple of Jupiter Tonans vowed by Augustus on the Capitoline Hill. The legend IOVIS TONANTIS is inscribed in the field or along the entablature of the temple. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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