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Comments
Augustus
Aureus, struck 18-17/16 BC in Spain (Colonia Patricia?).
Obv.: S P Q R CAESARI AVGVSTO, Augustus head, bare, r.
Rev.: QVOD VIAE MVN SVNT, Augustus, crowned by Victory, in horse-quadriga on double arch (adorned with rostra) on viaduct.
RIC² 144 var.; Calicó 265
Picture: Classical Numismatic Group

 Romanatic-ID: 363

Comments
Simon Wieland
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19:23:37, 08.02.2009
Note by Classical Numismatic Group:
This reverse refers to extensive measures undertaken by Augustus to improve the road systems in Italy. The historian Dio Cassius records the installation of ‘statues on arches on the bridge over the Tiber’ in commemoration of Augustus’ underwriting of the work carried out on the Via Flaminia. David Sear proposes that this scene may depict the Milvian Bridge which carried the Via Flaminia across the Tiber to the north of Rome.