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Denarius - Octavian IMP CAESAR, Victory
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 29 BC - 27 BC |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Reverse description | Octavian, togate, seated left upon a curule chair (sella curulis), holding a Victoriola (small figure of Victory) in his extended right hand. The composition conveys Octavian's claim to supreme military and civil authority in the aftermath of the Actian victory. The legend IMP CAESAR is disposed in the field, identifying the issuer as Imperator Caesar. The scene is rendered in a restrained, classicizing style typical of the period 29–27 BC. |
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| Mintage | ND (29 BC - 27 BC) |
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Struck in the immediate aftermath of Actium, this denarius belongs to a two-year window when Octavian had defeated Antony and Cleopatra but had not yet accepted the title Augustus — a man running an empire without a formal constitutional basis for doing so. The mints of this period, likely operating from mobile or provincial facilities rather than Rome itself, produced issues at a remarkable pace to pay down the debts and donatives of civil war.
RIC 270 falls within a group scholars associate with the Brundisium or Rome mint, though the attribution remains contested.