Sestertius C PLOTIVS RVFVS IIIVIR A A A F F S C

The tresviri monetales — the board of three mint magistrates whose names appear on aes coinage of the Augustan period — were junior senatorial appointees, typically men early in their careers seeking visibility. C. Plotius Rufus is known from this issue and little else; the position itself mattered more than the man. Augustus reinstated the practice of naming magistrates on bronze coinage after Caesar had suppressed it, a deliberate gesture toward Republican form that masked the reality of imperial control over the mint.