Live auction - brm_566968 - AUGUSTUS Denier
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| Estimate : | 720 € |
| Price : | 580 € |
| Maximum bid : | 660 € |
| End of the sale : | 10 March 2020 14:38:53 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Denier
Date: 19-18 AC.
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Nîmes
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,68 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Ce denier est frappé sur un flan un peu court et irrégulier. Exemplaire avec de hauts reliefs au niveau du buste et recouvert d’une jolie patine grise de médaillier. Petite rayure au-dessus du A de AVGVSTVS
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Auguste à droite, coiffé d’une couronne de chêne (O*).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CAESAR/ AVGVSTVS.
Reverse description : Deux lauriers.
Reverse translation : “Cæsar/ Augustus” (César, Auguste).
Commentary
Le portrait est caractéristique de l’atelier impérial de Nîmes ouvert en 19-18 avant J.-C., en particulier les rubans de la couronne qui descendent le long du cou.
Historical background
AUGUSTUS
(01/16/27 BC - 08/19/14 AD)
Augustus, after Actium and the taking of Alexandria, remains the sole master of the Roman Empire. He gave his powers to the senate in 27 and was honored with the title of august, giving birth to a new political regime: the principate.. The next forty years will be devoted to structuring and consolidating the system put in place by Augustus on the political, economic and cultural level.. He is assisted by Agrippa, who becomes his son-in-law by marrying his daughter Julia in 21 BC.. -VS. and bears him two grandsons, Caius and Lucius. Unfortunately, Agrippa, friend and double, died in 12 BC.. -VS. On the military level, he is seconded first by Drusus then by Tiberius - the two sons of his third wife, Livia. On the cultural level, the arbiter of fashions is Patron. With his epic the Aeneid, new Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil recalls the mythical birth of Rome and exalts the Roman virtues.. With skillful diplomatic and military activity, and despite the disaster of Varus in 9 AD, Augustus fixed the limes on the Rhine-Danubian front, benefiting from the repeated campaigns of Drusus, then Tiberius, and the end of the reign of Germanicus, son of Drusus. The relative peace with the Parthians is materialized by the return of the ensigns and prisoners of Carrhae (53 BC. -VS. ) in 20 BC. -VS. This event has a considerable impact. Augustus also reorganizes the senatorial and imperial provinces. He reserves the administration of Egypt. The last twenty years of his reign are dedicated to the preparation of his succession. One after the other, Agrippa died in 12 BC.. -VS. , Drusus in 9 BC. -VS. , then his two grandsons, Lucius in 2 and Caius in 4. Aged 77, Auguste died in Nola on August 19, 14, leaving the throne to Tiberius, new husband of Julie, already twice widowed.. His hopes also rest on Germanicus while Agrippa Posthumus has been sidelined. After his death, Augustus is deified and the Romans give his name to the eighth month of the year, August (augustus).
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