Rome 18 BCE

 

 

 

 

Obverse type (not shown): bust of Victory

Reverse

TYPE: Kneeling Parthian returning standards

LEGEND: CAESAR AVGVSTVS SIGN(is) RECE(ptis)

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The image of the defeated, kneeling Parthian was especially popular. People even wore the image on rings. Cp. Horace's description of Phraates, the Parthian king, "on his knees accepting the right and rule of Caesar." (Epodes 1.12.27) and Res Gestae 29.

Caesar Augustus, the standards returned.