Classical Numismatic Group, LLC
Auction 99 13 May 2015
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The Triumvirs. Octavian. Autumn 30-summer 29 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.66 g, 9h). Italian (Rome?) mint. Laureate head of Apollo of Actium right, with features resembling Octavian / Octavian, as city founder, veiled and wearing priestly robes, plowing right with yoke of oxen, holding whip and plow-handle. CRI 424; RIC I 272; RSC 117. VF, lightly toned, a few cleaning marks under tone.
From the collection of Alexandre Carathéodory Pasha (1833-1906).
This issue refers to the foundation of Nicopolis in Epiros by Octavian during the Actian campaign. This scene, in which the founder is plowing with oxen, refers to the Roman custom of fixing a boundary for a new city by marking it with a pomerium, or sacred furrow.
From the collection of Alexandre Carathéodory Pasha (1833-1906).
This issue refers to the foundation of Nicopolis in Epiros by Octavian during the Actian campaign. This scene, in which the founder is plowing with oxen, refers to the Roman custom of fixing a boundary for a new city by marking it with a pomerium, or sacred furrow.