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HISTORICAL ROMAN COINS
Augustus begin in 5—4 b.c., that is to say in the
year when Varus’s tenure of office came to an encl,
and some change was evidently made in the arrange-
ments of the mint. These “ archieratic ” coins con-
tinued to be issued down to year 31 of the Actian
era ( = 1 b.c.—1 a.d.), ceasing at the same time as
the silver coins with the figure of Tyche. These two
issues of silver and bronze were thus, as Macdonald
remarks, closely connected. As the Senatorial coinage
is not likely to have been permitted before the Imperial,
we may date the organization of the mint about!—6b.c.
There is nothing on the coin No. 106 itself to prove
its attribution to the mint of Antioch. But the pro-
venance of coins of this class is Syrian ; and a chain of
numismatic evidence, which we cannot follow here, links
these coins to others which are certainly Antiochene,
GAIUS CAESAR.
CIRCA 5 B.C.
107. Obv. Head of Gaius Caesar r. ; below, CAESAR ;
all in oak wreath.
Rev. An incense altar, with lion’s feet and ram’s
heads as decoration; around, a wreath
containing flowers, paterae and bucrania ;
across field, AVGVST.
Aureus. 7'96 grammes (122'8 grains). B.M.C. II., p. 42, No. 4468.
This aureus, with the corresponding denarius, was
assigned by Count de Salis to the mint of Rome and
165
Augustus begin in 5—4 b.c., that is to say in the
year when Varus’s tenure of office came to an encl,
and some change was evidently made in the arrange-
ments of the mint. These “ archieratic ” coins con-
tinued to be issued down to year 31 of the Actian
era ( = 1 b.c.—1 a.d.), ceasing at the same time as
the silver coins with the figure of Tyche. These two
issues of silver and bronze were thus, as Macdonald
remarks, closely connected. As the Senatorial coinage
is not likely to have been permitted before the Imperial,
we may date the organization of the mint about!—6b.c.
There is nothing on the coin No. 106 itself to prove
its attribution to the mint of Antioch. But the pro-
venance of coins of this class is Syrian ; and a chain of
numismatic evidence, which we cannot follow here, links
these coins to others which are certainly Antiochene,
GAIUS CAESAR.
CIRCA 5 B.C.
107. Obv. Head of Gaius Caesar r. ; below, CAESAR ;
all in oak wreath.
Rev. An incense altar, with lion’s feet and ram’s
heads as decoration; around, a wreath
containing flowers, paterae and bucrania ;
across field, AVGVST.
Aureus. 7'96 grammes (122'8 grains). B.M.C. II., p. 42, No. 4468.
This aureus, with the corresponding denarius, was
assigned by Count de Salis to the mint of Rome and
165