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Denarius - Augustus L AQVILLIVS FLORVS III VIR SICIL
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 19 BC - 4 BC |
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| Value | 1 Denarius |
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| Reverse description | A warrior, identified as personifying Sicilia or a Roman soldier-liberator, stands in military dress facing left, his weight balanced as he bends forward to raise the kneeling figure of Sicilia from the ground with his right hand while holding a shield in his left. The composition conveys the Roman theme of restoring Sicily to prosperity and order under Augustan governance. The legend L AQVILLIVS FLORVS III VIR SICIL is distributed around the field, naming the moneyer Lucius Aquillius Florus in his capacity as one of the Tresviri Monetales, with SICIL referencing Sicily as the subject of the reverse type. The figures are rendered in the bold, slightly schematic style typical of late Republican and early imperial hammered silver coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | L AQVILLIVS FLORVS III VIR SICIL (Translation: Lucius Aquillius Florus Triumvir, Sicilia. Lucius Aquillius Florus, moneyer (Triumvir Monetalis). Sicily.) |
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L. Aquillius Florus served as one of the tresviri monetales — the junior magistrates responsible for Rome's mint output — likely under Augustus in the later years of the first century BC. The SICIL attribution on this issue almost certainly references Sicily, though the exact administrative or honorific significance remains debated among specialists. What is not debated is that the tresviri system itself was already an anachronism by this point: Augustus had effectively centralized monetary authority, and these magistrates retained their titles and limited design privileges largely as a concession to Republican tradition rather than genuine institutional power.