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The Actian Arch

309, Lot: 273. Estimate $500.
Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Octavian. Autumn 30-summer 29 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.62 g, 8h). Italian mint, possibly Rome. Bare head right / Octavian’s Actian arch (arcus Actianus): single-span arch surmounted by Octavian in facing quadriga; IMP • CAESAR across architrave. RIC I 267; CRI 422; RSC 123. VF, toned, two small bankers’ marks in obverse field. Well centered. An important architectural type.


From the RVP Collection.

The single-span arcus Actianus, celebrating Octavian’s victory at Actium, was replaced in 19 BC by the arcus Augusti, a triple-span arch built to celebrate the recovery by Augustus of the famous standards lost by Antony and Crassus.