Watch List notes:

Augustus. Denarius; Augustus; 27 BC-14 AD, Hispania Baetica, Colonia Patricia (Cordoba), 18-17 BC, Denarius, 3.82g. Paris-1229, pl. XLVIII (same obv. die); cf. BM-428, C-83 (25 Fr.), and RIC-134a (R2). Obv: S P Q R IMP CAESA[RI AVG C]OS XI TRI POT VI Head bare r. Rx: CIVIB ET SIGN MILIT [A PART RECVPER] Triple triumphal arch, surmounted by Augustus in frontal quadriga, two Parthians standing on either side surrender standards to him, the Parthian on r. also holds bow. An interesting historical and architectural type, whose legends state that the Senate and Roman People have dedicated the depicted arch to Augustus, because he had recovered captured Roman citizens and military standards from the Parthians. This variant of the denarius with TRI POT rather than TR POT in the obverse legend is not in the standard catalogues, because Cohen 85 (first edition, 1859) overlooked it on the Paris specimen and was followed by Mattingly in BMC and RIC (both 1923) and then by Seaby in Roman Silver Coins (1978) and by Sutherland in his revised RIC (1984). Giard in his Paris catalogue of 1976, finally, correctly read TRI not TR POT on the three Paris specimens nos. 1229-31, which are all from the same obverse die as our coin. Now RECVPER in the reverse legend of this denarius is sometimes further abbreviated to just RECVP. That RECVPER is the correct restoration of this word on our specimen is suggested by Leu 28, 1981, lot 358 = Ars Classica VIII, 1924, Bement, lot 468, a very fine specimen which is from the same dies on both sides as our coin, and where RECVPE...can be read fairly clearly in the reverse legend.. VF