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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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| Reference(s) | RIC I#364, OCRE#ric.1(2).aug.364 |
| Obverse description | Bare head of Augustus facing right, rendered in fine Classical style with naturalistic portraiture characteristic of Augustan court coinage. The emperor's hair is rendered in short, comma-shaped locks swept forward over the brow. The legend encircles the portrait in the field, reading IMP CAESAR AVGVS TR POT VIII, denoting his eighth tribunician power. The portrait occupies the centre of the flan with a well-defined neck truncation below. |
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| Obverse lettering | IMP CAESAR AVGVS TR POT VIII (Translation: Imperator Caesar Augustus Tribunicia Potestate Octava. Supreme commander (Imperator) and Caesar Augustus, holder of tribunician power for the eighth time.) |
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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.