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RPC 1711.5 of Augustus

Augustus, Æ24, Kingdom of Thrace. BASILEWS ROIMHTALKOU, jugate heads of King Rhoemetalkes & Queen Pythodoris right / KAISAROS SEBASTOU, bare head of Augustus right, ewer before. SNGCop 1190, SGI 5396.

Lot No.7110. Fine.

$ 125.

Avgvstvs was born Gaius Octavius in September, 63 BC. His father died when he was four, and his grand-uncle Julius Caesar took an interest in him. He became Caesar's heir and adopted son by Caesar's will. He emerged victorious after 13 years of civil war, defeating the men who had killed Caesar, and then his erstwhile ally Marc Antony. He gradually assumed dominant civil powers, although he maintained the fiction of being the 'Princeps', or first among equals. He was voted the name 'Augustus' in 27 BC, and dated his rule from 23 BC. He peacefully transformed Rome from a republic to an empire, and died of natural causes on August 19, 14 AD.