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Denarius PAX, Genius
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 68-69 |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of the Genius Populi Romani facing right, with finely rendered curly hair, the figure draped across the lower bust. A cornucopia overflowing with fruits appears prominently behind the head in the left field. The Latin legend GENIO P R is inscribed along the right periphery of the coin in bold, well-spaced characters. The style is typical of the civil war coinage of AD 68–69, reflecting the iconographic conventions of the Julio-Claudian tradition. The flan is irregular with a slightly scalloped edge characteristic of hammered silver production of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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This denarius belongs to the coinage of Civilis — more precisely, it is attributed to the brief Gallic revolt coinage struck during the Year of the Four Emperors, when the Rhine legions and their allies briefly asserted independent authority. The RIC I 22 reference places it within the contested emissions of 68–69 AD, a period when mint control fractured entirely across the empire following Nero's suicide. Multiple unofficial or semi-official minting operations operated simultaneously, making die attribution genuinely difficult and attribution to a single authority still debated among specialists.