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Æ Unit - Augustus SC
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 23 BC - 14 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The SC coinage — struck by senatorial authority rather than imperial decree — reflects the administrative compromise Augustus carefully maintained in his first decades of rule. He cultivated the fiction that the senate retained meaningful power over the bronze currency while he controlled the gold and silver. Whether this was genuine constitutional deference or calculated theater remains debated, but the arrangement held for centuries.
RIC I 528 falls within the long reorganization of Roman coinage following Actium, when Augustus systematically replaced the chaotic triumviral issues with a standardized bronze series.