Dupondius TI SEMPRONIVS GRACCVS IIIVIR A A A F F S C

This issue belongs to the restored coinage program of 23–17 BC, during which Augustus transferred formal authority over the bronze series to the Senate — a carefully staged gesture that preserved republican optics while leaving monetary policy firmly under imperial control. The tresviri monetales responsible for these issues, including Sempronius Gracchus, held junior magistracies whose names appear prominently on the coinage precisely because Augustus wanted senatorial involvement visible. The family name Gracchus carried enormous political weight in Rome, descended from the reforming tribunes of the second century BC, and its appearance here was almost certainly not accidental.