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Denarius - Octavian CAESAR DIVI F, Venus
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 32 BC - 29 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse lettering | CAESAR DIVI F (Translation: Caesari Divi Filius. Caesar, son of the divine.) |
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| Mintage | ND (32 BC - 29 BC) |
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Struck in the chaotic years immediately following Actium, this issue belongs to a mobile military mint traveling with Octavian's forces — not a fixed urban workshop. The Venus type connects directly to the Julian family's claimed divine ancestry, a genealogical argument Octavian was pressing hard in coin propaganda as he consolidated power before the constitutional settlements of 27 BC rendered such messaging less urgent. Within a few years this kind of dynastic assertion would be folded into the broader Augustan program; these denarii predate that stability entirely.
RIC I 250A is scarce relative to other issues of the period, a product of its mobile-mint origin and concentrated military distribution rather than broad civilian circulation.