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Quadrans MESSALLA APRONIVS A A A F F S C
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 5 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Struck under the moneyers Messalla and Apronius, this quadrans belongs to a brief experiment in Augustan monetary administration — the triumviri aere argento auro flando feriundo, the three magistrates responsible for casting and striking bronze, silver, and gold, whose abbreviated title fills the reverse field. Augustus revived this Republican office as a calculated gesture toward constitutional normalcy, allowing the Senate to maintain nominal oversight of the coinage even as imperial control consolidated around it. The office carried prestige but little independent authority.
5 BC falls within a particularly active phase of Augustan bronze production, when the mint at Rome was regularizing the fractional coinage after years of irregular output.