Denarius - Augustus IOVI OLV

This issue belongs to the Spanish mint production of Augustus's early reign — most likely Colonia Caesaraugusta (modern Zaragoza) or Emerita Augusta — struck during a period when the western provincial mints were handling much of the imperial coinage while Rome's own mint remained intermittently active. The IOVI OLV reverse type connects to Augustus's deliberate cultivation of Jupiter's favor as ideological backing for his new political order, particularly resonant in the years immediately following Actium and the constitutional settlements of 27 and 23 BC.

RIC I 472 is a relatively scarce Spanish-mint type; the series as a whole sees more collector attention than its survival rate might otherwise warrant.