v21_2336 - GERMANICUS As, (MB, Æ 27)
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 650.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 650.00 €
unsold lot
Type : As, (MB, Æ 27)
Date: 40-41
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 11,26 g.
Coments on the condition:
Légèrement décentré sur la légende au droit. Très beau portrait de haut relief. Jolie patine vert foncé. Revers parfaitement centré
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GERMANICVS CAESAR TI AVGVST F DIVI AVG N.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Germanicus à gauche (O°1).
Obverse translation : “Germanicus Cæsar Tiberius Augustus Filius Divi Augusti Nostri”, (Germanicus césar Tibère Auguste fils de nos divins augustes).
Reverse
Reverse legend : C CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS PON M TR POT IIII P P.
Reverse description : Grand SC.
Reverse translation : “Caius Cæsar Augustus Germanicus Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate quartum Pater Patriæ”, (Caius césar auguste germanique grand pontife revêtu de la quatrième puissance tribunitienne père de la patrie).
Commentary
Portrait de très joli style. Épigraphie élégante et équilibrée.
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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