brm_292511 - CALIGULA and GERMANICUS Denier

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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 3 500.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: fin

Date: 37

Mint name / Town : Lyon

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰

Diameter : 20,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 3,82 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan très large irrégulier et éclaté à 3 heures au droit avec les grènetis visibles. Très belle tête laurée de Caligula. La tête nue de Germanicus n’est pas en reste, bien venue à la frappe et de style fin. Très jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets mordorés

Catalogue references :

C.2 (25f.) - RIC.12 (R3) - BMC/RE.19 - BN/R.29 - Giard/L2.172 /7a - RCV.- - MRK.11 /4 (4000€) - RSC.2

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

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. Malgré la rareté du coin, nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente.

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.