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Denarius - Octavian IMP CAESAR
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 29 BC - 27 BC |
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| Value | 1 Denarius |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | IMP CAESAR (Translation: Imperator Caesar. Supreme commander (Imperator) and Caesar.) |
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Struck in the narrow window between Octavian's final military victories — the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra in 31 BC and the formal grant of the title Augustus in January 27 BC — this issue captures the precise moment of institutional transition. He still held the title Imperator Caesar, not yet Augustus, which places these coins within a constitutional grey zone: supreme power exercised without the vocabulary that would eventually define the Principate. The brevity of that window makes the type chronologically tight, and RIC 269B is among the issues used by scholars to reconstruct the exact sequencing of Octavian's titulature in these months.