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Denarius - Augustus P PETRON TVRPILIAN IIIVIR, Pan
| 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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| Obverse description | Bare head of Augustus facing right, rendered in the classicising portrait style characteristic of early Imperial coinage. The finely modelled effigy displays the emperor's distinctive features with short, layered hair swept forward over the brow. The Latin legend encircles the portrait in the field. The flan shows the irregular, slightly convex form typical of hand-struck Republican and early Imperial denarii. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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P. Petronius Turpilianus served as one of the tresviri monetales — the junior magistrates responsible for Rome's mint — during the later Augustan period, when the imperial coinage system was still being consolidated after decades of civil war. The tresviri retained their names on coinage as a deliberate nod to Republican tradition, even as actual monetary authority had long since shifted to Augustus himself. This particular issue belongs to a group produced at Rome during a period when the mint was working to supply coinage for a monetized economy expanding rapidly across the western provinces.