Denarius - Augustus S P Q R

This issue dates to a pivotal moment in Augustus's carefully managed constitutional settlement. In 19 BC, he had returned to Rome from the East amid a political crisis, and the Senate granted him a series of extraordinary powers that effectively completed the architecture of the Principate without the name of kingship. The SPQR types minted in the immediately following years were a deliberate response — publicly attributing power back to the Senate and Roman people even as Augustus consolidated it entirely in his own hands.

RIC I 119 is attributed to a traveling mint, likely accompanying Augustus during his campaigns, rather than Rome itself.