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Quadrans IIIVIR A A A F F S C
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 8 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A simpulum (ladle used in Roman religious ceremonies) and a lituus (augural staff with curved top) displayed side by side in the field, serving as emblems of the pontifical and augural colleges respectively. The two instruments are rendered in bold, stylized relief characteristic of Augustan bronze coinage. A dotted border runs along the coin's periphery. The magistrates' names appear in a circular legend surrounding the devices. |
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| Mintage | ND (-8) |
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This quadrans belongs to a short-lived series issued under Augustus by the tresviri monetales — the three-man board responsible for bronze coinage — whose abbreviated title fills the reverse field. The emission coincides with Augustus's broader monetary reorganization, which formalized the denominational hierarchy of aureus, denarius, sestertius, dupondius, as, semis, and quadrans after decades of civil-war-era monetary disorder. The quadrans, the smallest unit in that system, was struck intermittently rather than continuously, produced in response to specific demand rather than as routine coinage.
RIC I 424 is among several closely related quadrans types from this period distinguishable primarily by the names of the individual monetales in the field.