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Denarius - Octavian CAESAR DIVI F
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 32 BC - 29 BC |
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| Value | 1 Denarius |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | CAESAR DIVI F (Translation: Caesar, son of the divine) |
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Struck in the chaotic years immediately following Actium, this denarius dates to the period when Octavian had defeated Antony and Cleopatra but had not yet been granted the title Augustus — that came in 27 BC. He was still styling himself with his adoptive identity, Caesar Divi Filius, son of the deified Julius, a claim he had been weaponizing politically since 44 BC. The mint is disputed; some attribute production to a traveling military mint accompanying Octavian's campaigns, others to Rome or Brundisium.
RIC I 257 falls within a densely catalogued but physically variable group. The transition from imperatoral coinage to the regularized Augustan system was still years away.