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Denarius - Octavian IMP CAESAR
| Uitgever | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Jaar | 29 BC - 27 BC |
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| Vorm | Round (irregular) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Bare head of Octavian facing right, rendered with fine portraiture characteristic of the late triumviral and early Augustan period. The youthful, idealised effigy displays closely cropped hair with individual strands carefully delineated, conveying both authority and classical refinement. No legend is present on the obverse, the entire field being devoted to the unadorned portrait. The flan is slightly irregular in shape, consistent with hand-struck Republican-era coinage. The portrait style reflects the transition from the more severe military imagery of the civil war period toward the classicising iconography of the emerging Principate. |
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| Rand | Plain |
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Struck in the narrow window between Octavian's victory at Actium and the Senate's grant of the title Augustus in 27 BC, this denarius belongs to a transitional moment when the future emperor was still navigating the fiction of restored republican government. The IMP CAESAR titulature places it precisely in that interregnum — after the military cognomen had been formalized but before the Augustan settlement gave him a permanent constitutional identity.
These issues were produced to pay down the enormous obligations owed to veterans and legions following the civil wars, drawing heavily on the wealth stripped from Egypt after Cleopatra's defeat.