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Denarius - Augustus SIGNIS PARTHICIS RECEPTIS
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 19 BC - 18 BC |
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| Weight | 3.2 g |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (19 BC - 18 BC) |
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The SIGNIS RECEPTIS type commemorates one of Augustus's most carefully managed propaganda victories: the recovery of the Roman military standards lost by Crassus at Carrhae in 53 BC and by Antony's generals thereafter. No battle was fought. Parthia returned them through negotiation in 20 BC, but Augustus promoted the settlement as a military triumph, declining an actual triumph and instead embedding the imagery into architecture, sculpture, and coinage simultaneously. The standards had been held for over three decades — long enough to carry genuine symbolic weight with the Roman public.