Obverse: CAESAR IMP•VII â€" Head of Octavian. Reverse: ASIA RECEPTA â€" Victory draped, standing looking left, holding wreath in right hand. On cista mystica between two snakes. The mystical cista, or basket, of Bacchus was the symbol of proconsular Asia, which this coin declares to be recepta, that is, taken possession of by Caesar. All silver coins, which were struck in the same district of Asia, present a similar presentation of the cista and are for that reason called cistophori. Victory is placed on the cista, simply because in the Roman mint, that figure was the perpetual type of the quinarius â€" Augustus received Asia within the sphere of his dominions when, in the year B.C. 30, either on his expedition into Egypt or on his return to Asia he tarried there to arrange public affairs and winter in the country (as Dion affirms). It is likewise stated, by Suetonius, that he went to Asia during his fourth consulate, and in his fifth left Samos for Rome. Looking, therefore, to the above epigraph, ASIA RECEPTA, as well as the title IMPERATOR•VII, inscribed on the obverse, we come pretty near at the age of this coin. Augustus proceeded to the fifth consulate and was Imperator for the seventh time.