Denarius
Augustus
Roman Imperial
Roman Empire
19-16 BCE
Silver
Weight: 3.5 g
Diameter: 13/16 in. (21 mm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Arthur Fairbanks, Class of 1886, in memory of his father, Henry Fairbanks, Class of 1853
27.1.29271
Geography
Place Made: Spain, Europe
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Coin
Research Area
Numismatics: Greek and Roman
Not on view
Inscriptions
Obverse: Laureate head of Augustus right; CAESAR AVGVSTV[S], left down, right up, outwardly Reverse: Comet with eight rays and tail; DIVVS IVLI*V*S, horizontally across center of field
Course History
ANTH 7, Thinking About Empire, Alan Covey, Winter 2014
HUM 3.02, Two Empires under the Sun, Roberta Stewart and Gil Raz, Spring 2019
LAT 15, Literature of Rome, Simone Oppen, Fall 2019
Exhibition History
Artifacts of the Roman Empire, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 18-November 5, 1990.
Provenance
Arthur Fairbanks (1864-1944), Class of 1886; given to present collection, 1927.
Catalogue Raisonne
BMC, Vol. I: no. 357, pl. 7/9
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