Denarius - Augustus L AQVILLIVS FLORVS III VIR SICIL

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.