brm_903935 - AUGUSTUS, CAIUS and LUCIUS Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 600.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 2 AC. - AD. 12
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 3,78 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait d’Auguste. Revers agréable. Patine grise de collection avec de légers reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : CAESAR AVGVSTVS - DIVI F PATER PATRIAE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d'Auguste à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Cæsar Augustus Divi Filius Pater Patriæ”, (César Auguste fils du divin Jules, père de la patrie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : C. L. CAESARES À L'EXERGUE/ AVGVSTI F COS DESIG [PRINC IVVENT].
Reverse description : Caius et Lucius Césars debout de face, vêtus de la toge, tenant chacun un bouclier rond et une haste ; simpulum à gauche, le lituus à droite.
Reverse translation : "Caius et Lucius Cæsares/ Augusti filii consules designati Principes Iuventutis" (Caius et Lucius Césars, fils d'Auguste, consuls désignés, princes de la jeunesse).
Historical background
AUGUSTUS, CAIUS and LUCIUS
(2 BC - 4 AD)
Born in 20 and 17 BC, Caius and Lucius are the children of Agrippa (+ 12 BC) and Julie. They are also the grandsons of Augustus who adopted them into the gens Julia. Augustus oversees their education and destines them for the Empire. They receive the titles of "princes of youth" and "caesars" as well as the manly toga. Designated consuls, they must succeed their grandfather. Unfortunately, Lucius died in 2 CE in Marseilles and his brother in 4 CE in Limyra in Lycia. They never rule. Augustus suffers a lot from it. His wife Livia will be accused of having murdered them to offer the succession to Tiberius (according to Suetonius).
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