bpv_778335 - GERMANICUS Assarion
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Type : Assarion
Date: 19
Mint name / Town : Sardes, Lydie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,08 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais à l’usure un peu plus marquée au droit qu’au revers. Très joli revers. Belle patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête nue de Germanicus à droite.
Obverse legend : GERMANIKOS KAISAREWN
Obverse translation : (Germanicus César).
Reverse
Reverse description : Athéna casquée et drapée, debout à gauche, tenant une phiale de la main droite et une javeline de la main gauche, son bouclier derrière elle.
Reverse legend : SARDIANWN/ MNA-SEAS
Reverse translation : (de Sardes, Mnaséas).
Historical background
GERMANICUS
(+19) restitution of CALIGULA
Consecration of Caligula
Germanicus is the eldest son of Nero Drusus and Antonia. He was born in 15 BC and was adopted in 4 at the same time as Tiberius. He leads numerous campaigns on the Rhine-Danubian limes and receives the triumph in 17. He is then sent to Syria with a proconsular imperium and dies in 19 in Antioch, perhaps assassinated by Pison, at the instigation of Tiberius (Suetonius ). He is the father of Caligula and young Agrippina as well as the brother of Claude.
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