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Denarius - Augustus C ANTIST VETVS FOED P R CVM GABINIS
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 16 BC - 15 BC |
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| Weight | 4.08 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Two veiled figures, identified as priests or officiants, stand facing one another across a low garlanded altar, each grasping a pig held above the altar in the act of sacrificial offering, referencing the ritual renewal of the ancient foedus between Rome and Gabii. The legend C ANTIST VETVS is distributed in the upper field, with FOED P R CVM GABINIS continuing around the lower and lateral fields, naming the moneyer Gaius Antistius Vetus and commemorating the treaty of the Roman people with the Gabini. The scene is rendered in a compact, formal style typical of late Republican and early Augustan moneyer reverses. |
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C. Antistius Vetus served as one of Augustus's moneyers around 16–15 BC, a period when the emperor was reorganizing the Roman mint system and restoring the office of the tresviri monetales after years of near-dormancy. The reverse type referencing a foedus between Rome and the Gabini — the people of Gabii, a Latin town just southeast of Rome — almost certainly alludes to Antistius's own family connections to the region, a common enough practice among moneyers who used their brief tenure to embed personal or civic loyalties into the coinage.