Augustus 27 BC - AD 14
| AVGVSTVS was born Gaius Octavius in September, 63 BC. His father died when he was four, and his grand-uncle Julius Caesar took an interest in him. He became Caesar's heir and adopted son by Caesar's will, read in 44 BC. Through civil wars lasting 13 years he emerged victorious, and gradually assumed dominant civil powers, although he maintained the fiction of being the 'Princeps', or first among equals. He was voted the name 'Augustus' in 27 BC, and dated his rule from 23 BC. He peacefully transformed Rome from a republic to an empire, and died of natural causes on August 19, 14 AD |
Augustus Bronze AS (27mm 10.44g) Struck 25-23 B.C. Emerita mint
Obv: CAESAR AVG TRIB POTEST Barehead right
Rev: P CARISIVS - LEG - AVGVSTI in three lines
RIC I 15a (pg. 42); BMCRE 298 (pg. 54)
Augustus Brass Dupondius, (25mm 9.9g)
Struck 27 B.C.- AD 14 Gaul, Nemausus
Obv: IMP DIVI F Heads of Agrippa wearing rostral crown, and Augustus bareheaded back to back
Rev: COL NEM Crocodile right, chained to palm frond , wreath with long ties above, two palm fronds at base
RPC I 523, RIC I 155 Sear 1729
Augustus Orichalum Dupondius (28mm 11.36g) Struck 18 B.C. Rome C. Asinius Gallus Moneyer
Obv: AVGVSTVS TRIBVNIC POTEST Legend in oak wreath
Rev: C . ASINIVS IIIVIR A A A F F around S C
c.f. RIC 372 Ex. William C Boyd Collection, Baldwins Auction (196) 9/26/2005
Augustus Bronze AS struck AD 11-14
Obverse:IMP CAESAR DIVI F AVGVSTVS IMP XX Bare head left
Rev: PONTIF MAXIM TRIBVN POT XXIIIISCLegend around SC
RIC-471 27mm 10.65g
Augustus Bronze AS struck under Tiberius AD 22-30
Obverse: DIVVS AVGVSVTS PATER Barehead left
Reverse: PROVIDENT SC Large altar with SC in field
RIC-0081 (TIB) 25mm 7.7g
Augustus Bronze AS struck under Tiberius AD 14-37Obverse: DIVVS AVGVSTVS PATER
Bare head left
Reverse: SC Winged thunderbolt with SC on either side.
RIC-0083 (TIB) 24mm 8.58g
