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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: LIVIA, wife of Augustus, 27 BC-AD 14. AE Sestertius (24.2 grams, 34.82 mm), Struck by Tiberius.
Obverse: SPQR/IVLIAE/AVGVST, Carpentum drawn to the right by two mules, front and sides ornamented with victories and other figures (old reengraving on carpentum).
Reverse: TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVG(VST.P.M.TR.POT.XXIIII) around large S.C.
Reference: RIC 51 (Tiberius); Sear 546. Grade: VF/F.
Comments: For more information, read the "Tiberius" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship see TOCS-IN-Tiberius, TOCS-IN-Livia; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews-Tiberius, Livia.