The blade of the rudder is between the body of
Capricorn and the
inscription. It is present but weakly struck,
as is the globe. Thanks Eugene.
I just took a look at another reference that I
had not examined before
RSC.
RSC I Augustus 21 is the
Augustus issue, the
style of the plate coin is very similar to this one.
RIC II Civil War 21a notes "This is as
Augustus 21, but of a different
style." Indeed the plate coin is of a different
style. All the
plate coins I have seen in various references for the
Augustus issue are similar to this coin and
plate coins identified as civil war are a different
style. I am
still thinking the coin in question is from the
Augustus issue, but I am sending it to
NGC as requested by the consignor. I certainly could be wrong.
Click to see Augustus / Capricorn Denarii in the ANSI didn't have the
Kraay article on my list of references for the Civil War of 68. No plate of this
type but, it is a worthy addition to the list and to use for future references. Thanks, Edessa.
References for the Civil War of 68-69 A.D.American Numismatic Society (
ANS)
Collections Database Online -
http://numismatics.org/search/searchBanti, A. & L.
Simonetti.
Corpus Nummorum Romanorum. (Florence, 1972-1979).
Burnett, A., M.
Amandry & P. Ripollès.
Roman Provincial Coinage I: From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius (44 BC-AD 69). (
London, 1992 and supplement).
Calicó, X.
The Roman Avrei, Vol. I: From the Republic to Pertinax, 196 BC - 193 AD. (Barcelona, 2003).
Cohen, H.
Description historique des monnaies frappées sous l'Empire Romain, Vol. 1: Pompey to Domitian. (
Paris, 1880).
Giard, J.
Le monnayage de l'atelier de Lyon, De Claude Ier à Vespasien (41-78 après J.-C.), et au temps de Clodius Albinus (196-197 après J.-C.). (Wetteren, 2000).
Giard, J.
Bibliothèque National Catalogue Monnaies de L'Empire Romain II: De Tebère à Néron. (
Paris, 1988).
King, C.
Roman Quinarii from the Republic to Diocletian and the Tetrarchy. (
Oxford, 2007).
Kraay, C. "The Coinage of
Vindex and
Galba, A.D. 68, and the Continuity of the Augustan Principate" in
NC 1949, pp. 129-149.
Mac Dowall, D.
The Western Coinages of Nero.
ANSNNM 161. (
New York, 1979).
Mattingly, H. & R.
Carson.
Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, Vol 1: Augustus to Vitellius. (
London, 1923).
Robinson, A.
Roman Imperial Coins in the Hunter Coin Cabinet, University of Glasgow, Vol. I. Augustus to Nerva. (
Oxford, 1962).
Seaby, H. & R. Loosley.
Roman Silver Coins, Vol. II: Tiberius to Commodus. (
London, 1979).
Sear, D.
Roman Coins and Their Values, The Millennium Edition, Volume One, The Republic and the Twelve Caesars 280 BC - AD 86. (
London, 2000).
Sutherland, C.
The Roman Imperial Coinage, Vol. I, From 39 BC to AD 69. (
London, 1984).
Toynbee, J.
Roman medallions.
ANSNS 5. (
New York, 1944).
Vagi, D.
Coinage and History of the Roman Empire. (Sidney, 1999).
From
Kraay Vindex (Now added to
NumisWiki too)...
"These issues are attributed to
Spain on grounds of
style, and to this date by their
reduced Neronian
weight, and by the conjunction on some specimens of civil war
reverse types with
obverse head of
Augustus. Sometimes
types are reproduced which
had originally been struck in the
Spanish mints of
Augustus, as, for example, the
capricorn, the comet of Divus Julius [Pl. IX. 20] and the
clupeus virtutis; others
had been
types of
Lugdunum, such as the famous C. and L. Caesares coin [Pl. IX. 21], or the butting
bull. On the whole it was the long-term aspects of
Augustus that were revived; the
capricorn and the
cornucopiae showed the prosperity which it was
his destiny to bring to the empire;
Victoria and
Pax his triumph at
Actium and the termination of civil war; the
corona civica and the
clupeus virtutis, the possession of those qualities which were the foundation of he principate; C. and L. Caesares
his providentia for the future of the Empire."
Click to see Civil War of 68 A.D. Coins in the Forum Shop.