provincial issue of Augustus
$12.50
Jul-20-01

AUGUSTUS CAESAR . 27 BC-14 AD-. Bronze -28mm of an uncertain mint (15.27
gm). . R: Fiscus, sella quaestoria and hasta; below, Q. cf. RPC. 5409; Syd.
1362. . Rare, important, and aVF. Edward Sydenham, writing in the
mid-twentieth century, placed this coin amongst "the more important coins
published by Professor Grant ("From Imperium To Auctoritas") and shown by
him to have been issued by the authority of state officials." Sydenham
thought this to have been an issue of Julius caesar, c. 45-44 BC, and
placed the likely mint as being Thessalonica. Reserach late in the century,
however, places this as being more likely a later issue under Augustus..