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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

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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/