Roma Numismatics Ltd
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Octavian AR Quinarius. Italian mint (Rome?), 29-28 BC. CAESAR IMP • VII, bare head right / ASIA on right, RECEPTA on left, Victory, draped, standing left, holding wreath in right hand and palm frond in left over left shoulder on cista mystica flanked by two interlaced snakes with heads erect. RIC 276; CRI 429; RSC 14; BMCRE 647-9 = BMCRR East 240-2; BN 899-903 (mint in Asia Minor). 1.25g, 14mm, 9h.
Good Very Fine. Lightly toned. Scarce.
An Italian mint is the likely striking place for this issue for, as Prideaux notes, the reverse legend of ASIA RECEPTA would not have been well received in the East in a land that had not been conquered by the Romans, but was ruled by them.
Good Very Fine. Lightly toned. Scarce.
An Italian mint is the likely striking place for this issue for, as Prideaux notes, the reverse legend of ASIA RECEPTA would not have been well received in the East in a land that had not been conquered by the Romans, but was ruled by them.