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Semis - Augustus ROM ET AVG, altar of Gauls
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint, Lugdunum (Lyon) |
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| Year | 9-14 |
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| Value | 1 Semis = 1/2 As = 1⁄32 Denarius |
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| Obverse lettering | CAESAR AVGVSTVS DIVI F PATER PATRIAE (Translation: Caesar Augustus Divi Filius Pater Patriae. Caesar Augustus, son of the divine, father of the nation.) |
| Reverse description | The Altar of the Three Gauls at Lugdunum (Ara Romae et Augusti) depicted frontally, its face decorated with a corona civica flanked by nude male figures on each side. Atop each of the two flanking columns stands a Victory holding a wreath. The altar design commemorates the federal sanctuary established at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône in 12 BC. The abbreviated legend ROM ET AVG appears prominently in the field. |
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The Altar of the Three Gauls at Lugdunum was dedicated on August 1, 12 BC by Drusus, Augustus's stepson, as a deliberate instrument of provincial consolidation — sixty Gallic tribes were required to send delegates annually, binding the conquered north to Rome through ritual as much as administration. The altar itself, not merely its image, physically stood at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône, a few hundred meters from this mint.
Coins produced at Lugdunum during the final years of Augustus's reign are thought to have supplied pay for Rhine legions stationed along the northern frontier.