Denarius CAESAR DIVI F ARME CAPT, Liber

The ARME CAPT ("Armenia captured") legend on this issue commemorates Augustus's diplomatic settlement of 20 BC, in which Tiberius received the submission of the Armenian king Artaxes II and recovered the standards lost by Crassus at Carrhae in 53 BC. Augustus treated this entirely bloodless arrangement as a military triumph — he declined the triumph itself but accepted triumphal honors, and the Roman mint obliged by producing coinage framing the settlement in the language of conquest.

The Liber type connects the issue to Dionysus/Bacchus, whose cult carried particular resonance in the East and in Augustus's carefully managed program of religious restoration at Rome.