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TheImperialImageTheEvidenceofCoins
ClareRowan
@ancient_tokens
TheRomanaCtudetoMoneta
• moneo• TempleofJunoMonetaontheArx,Capitoline
Meadows,A.andJ.Williams(2001).MonetaandtheMonuments:CoinageandPoliPcsinRepublicanRome.JournalofRomanStudies91:27-49.
SuetoniusAugustus94.12WhileinrePrementatApollonia,AugustusmountedwithAgrippatothestudiooftheastrologerTheogenes.Agrippawasthefirsttotryhisfortune,andwhenagreatandalmostincrediblecareerwaspredictedforhim,AugustuspersistedinconcealingthePmeofhisbirthandinrefusingtodiscloseit,throughdiffidenceandfearthathemightbefoundtobelesseminent.WhenheatlastgaveitunwillinglyandhesitaPngly,andonlyaYermanyrequests,Theogenessprangupandthrewhimselfathisfeet.Fromthat)meonAugustushadsuchfaithinhisdes)ny,thathemadehishoroscopepublicandissuedasilvercoinstampedwiththesignoftheconstella)onCapricornus,underwhichhewasborn.
RIC12126
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Bronzetoken,KunsthistorischesMuseumWien,Münzkabine_,inv.no.mkro32.652
exergue The area on a coin below the
ground-line of a design
reverse the design struck from the
held or upper die
obverse the design struck from the
anvil or lower die
legend the inscription
that appears on a coin
type The design that appears
on a coin
field the empty space
on a coin
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RRC490/2,Aureus,43BC.TheYoungCaesar(Octavian).MintinGalliaCisalpinaandItaly.Obverse:Legend:C·CAESAR·COS·PONT·AVGType:HeadofOctavianright,bearded;around,inscripPon.Borderofdots.Reverse:Legend:C·CAESAR·DICT·PERP·PONT·MAXType:LaureateheadofJuliusCaesarright;around,inscripPon.Borderofdots.
RRC480/2,44BC.Denarius,mintofRome,P.SepulliusMacer.
RRC488/1,43BC.Denarius,mintinGalliaTransalpinaandCisalpina.BeardedheadofMarkAntony,lituusbehind,MANTONIMP.LaureateheadofCaesar,jugbehind,CAESARDIC.
BriPshMuseum1995,0401.1
Aureus,Ephesus(?),c.28BC.LaureateheadofOctavian,IMPCAESARDIVIFCOSVI/TogateOctavianseatedoncurulechairholdingscroll,scrollcase(scrinium)before,LEGESETIVRAP(opulo)R(omano)RESTITVIT.
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RIC12476=RPC12203
SilvercistophorusfromthemintofEphesus,c.28BC.LaureateheadofOctavian,IMPCAESARDIVIFCOSVILIBERTATISP(opuli)R(omani)V(index)/Paxstandingonparazonium(?)holdingcaduceus;snakeemergingfromcistamys7caontheright,PAX,allwithinlaurelwreath.
RIC12256UncertainItalianmint34-29BC
RIC12270UncertainItalianmint29-27BC
BlackburnMuseum
Abdy,R.andN.Harling(2005).TwoimportantnewRomancoins.Numisma7cChronicle165:175-178.
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RIC12206
Aureus,mintofRome,2BC–AD4.LaureateheadofAugustus,CAESARAVGVSTVSDIVIFPATERPATRIAE/GaiusandLuciusCaesarstanding,each,togate,resPnghandonshieldandspear,simpulum,right,andlituus,leY,flanking,leYandrightrespecPvely,CLCAESARESAVGVSTIFCOSDESIGPRINCIVVENT.
RGDA14.1
RIC12405,denarius,mintofRome.C.MariusC.f.Tromoneyer.13BC.BareheadofAugustuswithinoakwreath,AVGVSTVSDIVIF.HeadofJuliawithwreathabove,betweentheheadsofGaiusandLucius,CMARIVSTROIIIVIR.
RIC12199,denarius,mintofLugdunum,9-8BC.GaiusCaesargallopingholdingswordandshield;aquilabetweentwostandardsonthegroundbehind.CCAESAVGVSF.Dio55.6.4.
Pollini,J.(1985).ThemeaninganddateofthereversetypeofGaiusCaesaronhorseback.AmericanJournalofNumisma7cs30:113-117.
RIC12207
c.2BC–AD4‘orbeyond’
Wolters,R.(2002).GaiusundLuciusCaesaralsdesignierteKonsulnundprincipesiuventuPs.DielexValeriaCorneliaundRICI2205ff.Chiron32:297-323.
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The‘X’series
RIC12211
Wolters– TabulaHebana TabulaSiarensis
HymnoftheSalii 10centuriae
ImitaPons
TURS10Rostowzew,M.(1903).Tesserarumurbisromaeetsuburbi.St.Petersburg.
ProvincialcoinofAeolisinAegae.TheobverseshowstheheadofGaiusCaesarandthereversetheheadofLuciusCaesar.
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PASDOR-C61F33,fromSomerset.
RIC1237A
Denarius,19-18BC,‘Caesaraugusta’.HeadofAugustuswithoakwreath,CAESARAVGVSTVSComet;DIVVSIVLIVS
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LudiSaeculares
RIC12340.Legend:AVGVSTDIVIFLVDOSSAEType:Herald,standing,leY,holdingcaduceusinrighthand,andshieldwithstarinleYLegend:MSANQVINIVSIIIVIRType:Four-rayedcometwithtailaboveyouthfulhead,laureate,right(DeifiedJuliusCaesar)
SaecularGames
Augustus
DomiPan
- acta- cippus
FurtherResources
• CoinageoftheRomanRepublicOnlineh_p://numismaPcs.org/crro/
• OnlineCoinsoftheRomanEmpireh_p://numismaPcs.org/ocre/
• ThePortableAn7qui7esSchemehCps://finds.org.uk/• C.Rowan(2019),ANS/CUPGuidestotheCoinageoftheAncientWorld:From49BCtoAD14.Cambridge.
• Videoson#AskanAcademic-h_ps://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/outreach/warwickclassicsnetwork/stoa/videosetc/askanacademic/