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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Imperators| > |Octavian| > RB86123
Octavian, Triumvir and Imperator, Augustus 16 January 27 B.C. - 19 August 14 A.D.
|Octavian|, |Octavian,| |Triumvir| |and| |Imperator,| |Augustus| |16| |January| |27| |B.C.| |-| |19| |August| |14| |A.D.|, In 38 B.C., Octavian, Mark Antony, and Lepidus signed the Treaty of Tarentum extending the Second Triumvirate until 33 B.C. On 17 January 38 B.C., Octavian married Livia. Octavian gained permission from the College of Pontiffs to wed her while she was still pregnant from another husband. Three months after the wedding she gave birth to her second son, Nero Claudius Drusus. The baby and his elder brother, the four-year-old Tiberius, lived in Octavian's household.
RB86123. Leaded bronze dupondius, SRCV I 1570, Crawford 535/2, Sear CRI 309, Sydenham 1336, BMCRR Gaul 108, Cohen I 95, RPC I 621, VF, well centered on a broad flan, some corrosion and pitting, southern Italian (Paestum?) mint, weight 15.746g, maximum diameter 20.8mm, die axis 45o, c. 38 B.C.; obverse DIVI F, bare head of Octavian right, star below chin; reverse DIVOS / IVLIVS in two lines within laurel wreath; ex Heritage, Long Beach Signature Sale 3035 (3 Sep 2014), lot 32167; SOLD










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