A very rare Armenia Capta denarius of Augustus
Los 2077
Augustus, 27 BC-AD 14. Denarius (Silver, 19 mm, 3.41 g, 1 h), Pergamum, circa 19-18 BC. Bare head of Augustus to right. Rev. CAESAR - DIV F / ARMEN - CAPTA / IMP - VIII Armenian standing facing, wearing bashlyk and long garnments, holding spear in his right hand and bow set on ground in his left. BMC 678 and pl. 16, 19 = RIC 519 corr. (reverse legend) and pl. 9 (same dies). Cohen 59. Very rare. Minor deposits and with light scratches, otherwise, good fine.

Ex Leu Web Auction 24, 3-6 December 2022, 2621 and from the collections of an Armenian businessman, Leu Web Auction 20, 16-18 July 2022, 2342 and of Z. P., Roma E-Auction 78, 17 December 2020, 1263.

The history of this coin is the history of two Roman emperors, two Armenian kings and a Parthian royal couple, for in 20 BC, Augustus' stepson and future heir, Tiberius, led a military campaign to Armenia to replace the Armenian king, Artaxias, II with his brother, Tigranes III. The swift Roman reaction to an Armenian embassy expressing their discontent with Artaxias II impressed the Parthian king, Phraates IV (38-2 BC), so much that he accepted the Roman supremacy over the long-contested Kingdom of Armenia. The king also returned the legionary eagles captured from Crassus in the battle of Carrhae in 51 BC, in exchange for the return of one of his sons who had been held hostage in Rome. It was one of the major diplomatic victories of Augustus, who celebrated the success with a broad propagandistic campaign, which included this very rare coin emission depicting Armenia not as an ally, but as a captured and subjugated kingdom. Aside from concluding peace between the two superpowers of their time, the diplomatic embassies between Augustus and Phraates had a certainly unexpected consequence: in his son's entourage, there was a beautiful slave girl named Musa, whom Phraates would eventually marry and accept as his queen. To his fatal misfortune, Musa turned out to be a highly talented but ruthless power seeker, and in 2 BC, she poisoned her husband and replaced him with their mutual son, Phraatakes, whom she married as his mother-wife.
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