Issued under the moneyer Gaius Antistius Reginus, one of the tresviri monetales appointed for 13 BC — a college of three junior magistrates who retained nominal oversight of the mint even as Augustus consolidated effective control over coinage policy. The precise identity of this Antistius Reginus remains debated; a consul suffect of 6 BC shares the name, and the moneyer post would fit the expected cursus honorum of someone reaching the consulship roughly seven years later.
13 BC was a politically charged year: Augustus had recently returned from Gaul and Spain, and the Senate voted him the Ara Pacis on July 4th of that year.
Issued under the moneyer Gaius Antistius Reginus, one of the tresviri monetales appointed for 13 BC — a college of three junior magistrates who retained nominal oversight of the mint even as Augustus consolidated effective control over coinage policy. The precise identity of this Antistius Reginus remains debated; a consul suffect of 6 BC shares the name, and the moneyer post would fit the expected cursus honorum of someone reaching the consulship roughly seven years later.
13 BC was a politically charged year: Augustus had recently returned from Gaul and Spain, and the Senate voted him the Ara Pacis on July 4th of that year.