The listing, 27BC - 14 AD ++ANCIENT ROMAN COIN++ AUGUSTUS CAESAR++ has ended.
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This is a rare and authentic ancient Roman coin of Augustus Caesar. It is about the size of a modern US Half Dollar. It is called an "AS" .
27BC-14AD
Obverse : AUGUSTUS
Reverse: "SC" ..S building C
Composition: Copper
Denomination: one AS
BRIEF HISTORY:
He was born Gaius Octavius into an old and wealthy equestrian branch of the plebeian Octavii family. Following the assassination of his maternal great-uncle Julius Caesar in 44 BC, Caesar's will named Octavius as his adopted son and heir. Together with Mark Antony and Marcus Lepidus, he formed the Second Triumvirate to defeat the assassins of Caesar. Following their victory at Philippi, the Triumvirate divided the Roman Republic among themselves and ruled as military dictators. The Triumvirate was eventually torn apart under the competing ambitions of its members: Lepidus was driven into exile and stripped of his position, and Antony committed suicide following his defeat at the Battle of Actium by Augustus in 31 BC.