bpv_978675 - CLAUDIUS and DIVUS ANGUSTUS Demi-unité
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Type : Demi-unité
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Thessalonique, Macédoine
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 10,57 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan épais et centré. Belle tête de Claude au droit, et revers agréable. Usure régulière, de beaux reliefs. Patine verte
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Claude à gauche (O*1).
Obverse legend : TI. KLAU. KAISAR SEBASTOS (GER), (Tiberios Klaudios Kaisaros Sebastos Germanikos)
Obverse translation : (Tibère Claude César auguste germanique).
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête radiée d’Auguste à droite (O).
Reverse legend : QEOS SEBASTOS - QESSALONEIKEWN, (Qeos Sebastos Qessaloneikewn)
Reverse translation : (Le divin Auguste de Thessalonique).
Commentary
Pour ce type, les auteurs du RPC ont répertorié vingt-sept exemplaires pour huit coins de droit.
Historical background
CLAUDIUS and DIVUS ANGUSTUS
Claude, son of Néron Drusus and Antonia, is the grandson of Marc Antoine and Octavie by his mother and of Livie, wife of Auguste by his father. He is also the great-nephew of Augustus, the nephew of Tiberius, the brother of Germanicus, the uncle of Caligula and Agrippina, the great-uncle of Nero. Auguste is in fact also her paternal grandfather since Livie married him. It is quite normal that Claude, at the beginning of his reign, wants to link his filiation to the founder of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
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