Lot 3749

L. Vinicius, moneyer - AR Denarius (Rome 16 BC, 3.47g) - Equestrian statue of Augustus right, on pedestal inscribed SPQR IMP CAES in three lines (gateway of city wall, arched, to right / L VINICIVS L F III VIR Cippus inscribed SPQR IMP CAE QVOD V M S EX EA P Q IS AD A DE in six lines (RIC 362 / RSC 543) - VF, some flan damage, a very rare coin. The inscription of the cippus abbreviates 'Senatus Populusque Romanus, Imperatori Caesari, quod viae munitae sunt ex ea pecunia quam is ad aerarium detulit' which translates as 'The road was built with money that Caesar, the Roman emperor, gave to the treasury'. The location is the cippus was in Rome's region VII, at the Via Lata, near the Via Flaminia.