Bare head of Augustus facing right on obverse; bull standing right on reverse

**Obverse context.** Augustus, having received that title from the Senate in January of 27 BC, was at this moment consolidating the new Principate after the long civil wars that had ended at Actium four years earlier.

**Reverse context.** The bull is a recurring type on Augustus's eastern issues from Pergamum and likely evokes the sacrificial *taurus* of state religion, though some have linked it to the founding iconography of the colony or to a specific ritual marking the new regime.

Attractively toned with scratches visible under the tone.

Lacquered surface with marks and edge chips.

Toned with faint hairlines visible under the tone.

Toned with some iridescence, roughness, edge split, and flan crack, reverse off center

Attractive light iridescent toning, a few light scratches, a couple of minor flan flaws, minor lamination error. Well struck.

Toned with hairline scratches and a small area of roughness on the obverse.

Well centered strike with alluring cabinet tone. Light v-shaped scratch in obverse field.

Light slate gray patina with faint pin scratches in peripheries. Minute natural edge split. Finely detailed portrait.


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Denarius of AugustusRIC I 475

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