Obverse: diademed and draped bust of Feronia right. Reverse: Parthian kneeling right, presenting standard inscribed X.

Feronia was an ancient Italic goddess associated with freedmen, fertility, and the wild, whose cult survived into the Roman period and lent her image to Augustan coinage as a personification of liberality and Italian tradition.

The kneeling Parthian commemorates the diplomatic settlement of 20 BC, when Phraates IV returned the legionary standards lost by Crassus at Carrhae in 53 BC, a recovery Augustus presented as a victory equal to military conquest.

Reverse legend: CAESAR AVGVSTVS SIGN RECE, "Caesar Augustus, the standards recovered," with SIGN abbreviating *signa* and RECE abbreviating *recepta*.

Iridescent tone, banker's mark, light scratches, edge flaw

Well-struck with lustrous surfaces showing minimal wear.

Well-struck with excellent surface preservation and minimal wear.

Toned with bankers' marks on obverse, scratches, struck off center

Toned with banker's mark on obverse and a few shallow scratches

Bright surfaces with bankers' marks and some die rust on obverse

Toned with a few light scratches on obverse under tone and some deposits on reverse.

Toned with scrape and area of weak strike on obverse, hairlines, flan flaw on reverse.

Struck on a broad flan, slightly off center. Attractive cabinet tone.

Iridescent tone with a few marks on obverse and banker's mark on reverse.

Wonderful deep cabinet tone, scratches under tone. Well centered.

Attractive cabinet toning with a few minor marks under tone

Attractively toned with some shallow scratches and light roughness, struck off center.


2/25/26	$380	VF	Stack's Bowers	▼ −39%
2/19/25	$600	F	CNG	— 0%
1/23/25	$2,000	AU	CNG	— 0%
1/15/25	$3,500	AU	CNG	▲ +75%
12/4/24	$110	F	CNG	▼ −82%

Denarius of AugustusRIC I 288

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