Augustus - CISTOPHORUS from Ephesus Capricorn (ME2177)
Augustus and Agrippa AS crocodile dupondius SCARCE (JUN2156)
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Octavian AR Quinarius. Italian mint (Rome?), 29-28 BC. CAESAR IMP • VII, bare head right / ASIA on right, RECEPTA on left, Victory, draped, standing left, holding wreath in right hand and palm frond in left over left shoulder on cista mystica flanked by two interlaced snakes with heads erect. RIC 276; CRI 429; RSC 14; BMCRE 647-9 = BMCRR East 240-2; BN 899-903 (mint in Asia Minor). 1.44 g, 15 mm. Ex Hirsch 134, 1982, Los Nr. 126. aVF
Unequivocal in its proclamation of the extension of Octavian's authority to the province of Asia which, until his recent downfall, had been under Antony's rule ever since [the battle of] Philippi in 42 BC.
