v38_0467 - CALIGULA and GERMANICUS Denier

MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 1 200.00 €
Estimate : 2 500.00 €
Realised price : 1 475.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 2 200.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: fin

Date: 37

Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lyon

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰

Diameter : 18,00 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 3,47 g.

Rarity : R3

Emission: 2e

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan, un peu court sur les légendes. Très beaux portraits. Petite rayure devant la tête de Germanicus. Patine de collection ancienne

Catalogue references :

C.2 (25f.) - RIC.12 (R3) - BMC/RE.19 - BN/R.29 - Giard/L2.172 /3a - RCV.- - MRK.11 /4 (4000€) - RSC.2

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de la collection M. P. de Lorraine

Obverse

Obverse legend : C CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR POT ..

Obverse description : Tête laurée de Caligula à droite (O*).

Obverse translation : “Caius Cæsar Augustus Germanicus Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate”, (Caius césar auguste germanique grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne).

Reverse

Reverse legend : GERMANICVS. CAES. P. C. CAES. AVG. GERM..

Reverse description : Tête nue de Germanicus à droite (O°).

Reverse translation : “Germanicus Cæsar Pater Caius Cæsar Augustus Germanicus”, (Germanicus césar père de Caius césar auguste Germanicus.

Commentary

Poids léger. Rubans de type 3. J.-B. Giard pour cette émission a répertorié dix-huit coins de droit et dix-huit coins de revers pour vingt-et-un exemplaires recensés. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du musée de Berlin (Giard/L. 172/3a, pl. XLI).

Historical background

CALIGULA and GERMANICUS

(37-41)

Caligula is very attached to his parents. His father Germanicus is the son of Drusus senior, brother of Tiberius and Antonia minore, daughter of Marc Antoine and Octavie. At the age of seven, Caligula lost his father, Germanicus (October 10, 19). His mother Agrippina, daughter of Julie and Agrippa, brought him up in memory of this deceased father. As time passes, she pits her children against Tibere, her stepfather, because the latter was Julie's third husband. She accuses him of having poisoned her husband through Pison, governor of Syria. Tiberius ends up taking a dislike to his daughter-in-law and finally has her exiled. Then, he executes or relegates the other children of the descendants of Germanicus: Nero and Drusus are successively eliminated, young Agrippina and Drusilla are exiled, Agrippina mother lets herself die. Tiberius keeps with him only Caligula who ends up succeeding him after having stifled his protector, as reported by the testimony of Suetonius.