v24_0257 - CALIGULA and AGRIPPINA THE ELDER Denier fourré
MONNAIES 24 (2005)
Starting price : 950.00 €
Estimate : 2 000.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 950.00 €
Estimate : 2 000.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier fourré
Date: 38
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lyon (Lugdunum)
Metal : fourré silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 3,28 g.
Rarity : R3
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan très large. Portraits magnifiques, en particulier pour celui d’Agrippine où toutes les mèches de la chevelure se distinguent nettement. Jolie patine de médaillier
Catalogue references :
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 Consul”, (Caius césar auguste germanique grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AGRIPPINA. MAT . C. CAE[S AVG GERM].
Reverse description : Buste drapé d’Agrippine mère à droite avec une chevelure ornementée se terminant par une queue de cheval (L).
Reverse translation : “Agrippina Mater Caii Cæsaris Augusti Germanici”, (Agrippine mère de Caius César auguste germanique).
Commentary
Poids léger. Fourré. J.-B. Giard pour cette émission a répertorié quatorze coins de droit et quatorze coins de revers pour quinze exemplaires récensés. Notre exemplaire ne semble pas appartenir à une combinaison de coin connu. Une contremarque sous le menton.
Historical background
CALIGULA and AGRIPPINA THE ELDER
Caligula is very attached to his parents. He lost his father Germanicus at the age of seven. His mother Agrippine, daughter of Julie and Agrippa raised him 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.
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