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Denarius - Octavian AVGVR PONTIF / IMP CAESA͡R DIVI F
| Issuer | Roman Republic (509 BC - 27 BC) |
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| Year | 31 BC |
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| Value | Denarius (1) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Winged Victory standing in right profile atop a globe, holding a laurel wreath tied with a fillet in her outstretched right hand and a long palm branch resting over her left shoulder in her left hand, symbolising Octavian's imminent triumph in the civil war. The figure is rendered in dynamic style with drapery falling behind the extended wings. The legend IMP CAESAR DIVI F, proclaiming Octavian's title of Imperator and his descent from the deified Julius Caesar, is disposed around the field. The design is enclosed by a border of dots. |
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Struck in 31 BC, the year of Actium, this is one of the last issues produced before Octavian's formal assumption of the title Augustus in 27 BC — making it technically a Republican emission in name only. The dual titles AVGVR and PONTIF reflect Octavian's careful accumulation of priestly offices throughout the 30s, a deliberate strategy to concentrate religious authority alongside military command before any constitutional settlement had been reached. He held the augurate from at least 41 BC and the pontificate following the death of Lepidus's predecessor.
RRC 546/4 places this among the mobile military mint issues of the Actian campaign period.