Classical Numismatic Group, LLC
Electronic Auction 392 1 March 2017
View prices realized
► Sale information
Find similar lots
Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.51 g, 6h). Spanish mint (Colonia Caesaraugusta?). Struck circa 19-18 BC. Head right, wearing oak wreath / S P Q R above and below shield inscribed CL•V; laurel branches flanking. RIC I 36a; ACIP 4037; RSC 51. VF, toned, flan crack, some roughness, traces of lacquer on reverse.
From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind.
In the Res Gestae, Augustus records that the Senate, in giving him the title Augustus, also decreed that the doorposts of his house be officially decorated with laurel, that the corona civica be placed over the door, and that a shield be displayed in the Curia Iulia. This shield, or clipeus, had been dedicated to him by the Senate and the Roman People on account of his virtues of bravery, clemency, justice, and pietas, virtues which were inscribed on the shield itself. Copies of it were then set up all over the Roman world. The return in 19 BC of the Roman standards captured by the Parthians at the Battle of Carrhae offered an excellent opportunity to once again recall Augustus' pietas, one of the virtues recorded on the clipeus.
From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind.
In the Res Gestae, Augustus records that the Senate, in giving him the title Augustus, also decreed that the doorposts of his house be officially decorated with laurel, that the corona civica be placed over the door, and that a shield be displayed in the Curia Iulia. This shield, or clipeus, had been dedicated to him by the Senate and the Roman People on account of his virtues of bravery, clemency, justice, and pietas, virtues which were inscribed on the shield itself. Copies of it were then set up all over the Roman world. The return in 19 BC of the Roman standards captured by the Parthians at the Battle of Carrhae offered an excellent opportunity to once again recall Augustus' pietas, one of the virtues recorded on the clipeus.