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Augustus
Contributor: Walter C. Holt
Issuer: AUGUSTUS, 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius, struck by moneyer Marcus Durmius c.19/18BC.
Obverse: Bust of Honos, right, M. DVRMIVS III VIR HONORI
Reverse: Slow quadriga with modius shaped car containing three ears of corn (or a flower?), CAESAR AVGVSTVS S.C.
Reference: RIC 313r2; RSC 429. Grade: GVF+G5.
Comments: For more information, read the "Augustus" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Augustus see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.