Live auction - brm_559700 - CALIGULA and AGRIPPINA THE ELDER Denier
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| Estimate : | 1 400 € |
| Price : | 801 € |
| Maximum bid : | 821 € |
| End of the sale : | 10 March 2020 14:42:26 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Denier
Date: 40
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 3,56 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Usure régulière. Jolis portraits. Patine grise
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection M C Lille
Obverse
Obverse legend : C CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR POT III COS III .
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Caligula à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Caius Cæsar Augustus Germanicus Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Tertium Consul Tertium”, (Caius césar auguste germanique grand pontife revêtu de la troisième puissance tribunitienne consul pour la troisième fois).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AGRIPPINA. MAT . C. CAES 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).
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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