{"id":2006,"date":"2018-04-17T09:53:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T13:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2018-04-17T11:18:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T15:18:57","slug":"object-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/2018\/04\/object-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Object of the Month: Roman Coin from the age of Caesar Augustus (27 B.C.E. &#8211; 14 C.E.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2018\/04\/Coin-Version-3.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2008\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2018\/04\/Coin-Version-3-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"Denarius Coin 0.6875 inches x 0.625 inches 2015.16.0054\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2018\/04\/Coin-Version-3-300x237.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2018\/04\/Coin-Version-3.jpg 587w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This hammered silver coin was made during the reign of Caesar Augustus (27 B.C.E. &#8211; 14 C.E.), the first Roman emperor. He spearheaded the transformation of Rome from a republic to an empire through military strength and governing. The chariot and laurel wreath symbolize this military success, while the robes represent those worn by highly ranked government officials called consuls. This coin is from a distinguished collection of Etruscan and Greco-Roman antiquities, including over 400 coins, donated by alumnus Ronald D\u2019Argenio (MS \u201876\/JD \u201979).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hammered silver coin was made during the reign of Caesar Augustus (27 B.C.E. &#8211; 14 C.E.), the first Roman emperor. He spearheaded the transformation of Rome from a republic to an empire through military strength and governing. The chariot and laurel wreath symbolize this military success, while the robes represent those worn by highly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/2018\/04\/object-of-the-month\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Object of the Month: Roman Coin from the age of Caesar Augustus (27 B.C.E. &#8211; 14 C.E.)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gallery","category-roman-coins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}