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Augustus AR Denarius. Uncertain mint, circa 17 BC. Bare head right; CAESAR around neck truncation, all within oak wreath / Candelabrum ornamented with rams' heads, AVG-VSTI across fields; all within wreath entwined with bucrania and paterae. RIC 540; RSC 2. 3.41g, 19mm, 6h.
Very Fine; slightly porous. Rare.
Often thought to depict a 'rejuvenated' Augustus, in 'Roman Coins and their Values' David Sear reasserts the identification first proposed by Henri Cohen: that this is in fact Gaius. Bearing little resemblance to other portraits of Octavian/Augustus, and struck in the same year that Gaius and his newborn brother Lucius were adopted by Augustus as his heirs, this attribution seems most likely.
Very Fine; slightly porous. Rare.
Often thought to depict a 'rejuvenated' Augustus, in 'Roman Coins and their Values' David Sear reasserts the identification first proposed by Henri Cohen: that this is in fact Gaius. Bearing little resemblance to other portraits of Octavian/Augustus, and struck in the same year that Gaius and his newborn brother Lucius were adopted by Augustus as his heirs, this attribution seems most likely.