Silver, 3.00 grams, 20.47 mm. Rome. 19-14 BC. Obverse: CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head right. Reverse: R TVRPILIANVS III VIR, the treacherous Tarpeia facing, buried to waist in shields. RIC 299; RSC 494; BMC 29; Sear 1639. Typical heavily used English find. (According to legend, when Rome was being besieged by the Sabines, Tarpeia, the daughter of the commander of the citadel, went to the Sabine camp and offered to open the gates of the city in exchange for "what they bore on their left arms". The greedy woman had meant their gold bracelets, but instead the Sabines threw their shields, which they carried on their left arms, upon her and she was crushed to death beneath the weight. Her body was then thrown from a cliff above the city which since then had been called the Tarpeian Rock, and which was used as the place of execution for traitors.)