![]() ![]() ![]() Buy with confidence the coin you see is the coin you’ll receive USPS Priority Insured Shipping. This coin looks much nicer than the grade in the holder. ![]() RIC I 22 NGC graded VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, with great portraits of Caligula and his mother. AGRIPPINA MAT C CAES AVG GERM, draped bust of Agrippina Sr. C CAESAR AVG PON M TR POT III COS III, laureate head of Caligula right. Caligula : Type: Standard circulation coin Years: 37-38: Value: Denarius (1) Currency: Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC AD 215) Composition: Silver: Weight: 3. Silver denarius, 3.67g., 18 mm., struck AD 40. One historian was quoted as saying ” Caligula learned by actual experience that he was not a god”. Praetorian officers- his guards, would stab he and his family to death in the emperors palace. Toward the end, when enough people wanted him dead. From a distance of almost 2,000 years, it is hard to say to what extent the. How Western Europe developed its taste for ‘Turkey’ carpets. A well struck coin on a broad flan and well centered for the. On the reverse, the legend DIVVS AVG PATER PATRIAE is around and features the radiated head of Divus Augustus facing right. On the obverse, the legend C CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR POT is around with the laureated head of Caligula facing right. Caligula was frustrated in this however by very strong opposition from the Senate. Caligula, with Divus Augustus, AR Denarius. 37-38, First issue, 3.9 g., C CAESAR AVG GERM PM TR POT COS bare head right. Even high ranking Senators couldn’t hide from him, often making them run for miles in front of his chariot. Caligula long ago entered the popular imagination as an archetype of the sadistic and depraved Roman emperor. Caligula, Denarius, mint of Lugdunum, A.D. His relationships with others was filled with torment. Obv: C CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR POT (counterclockwise), laureate head of Gaius right Rev: AGRIPPINA MAT C CAES AVG GERM (counterclockwise), draped bust of Agrippina Senior (his mother), her hair in a queue behind, one curly lock falls loose on the side. He only ruled for fours years, but was filled with enough cruelty and lunacy that his reputation would make him notorious. Caligula and Agrippina AR Denarius, aF, toned, bumps and marks, 2.680g, 17.8mm, 180o, Lugdunum (Lyon, France) mint, end of 37 - early 38 A.D. Caligula One of Rome’s most iconic bad guys, Caligula AD 37-41. So owning multiples may pay off in the future. Caligula Denarius has the potential to become what Carson City $20’s do- get more expensive every year because of their popularity and not enough of them. That’s a very small number to sink in to collectors. So potentially there can only be 108 certified complete sets worldwide. Gaius (Caligula) AD 37-41 Silver Denarius Lugdunum (Lyon) mint, Struck AD 40 Obverse: C CAESAR AVG PON M TR POT III COS III, Laureate head. Less than 110 coins have been certified by NGC -(108). Roman Empire Caligula AD 37-41 Silver Denarius NGC VF ULTRA RARE TWELVE CAESARS. So who knows where these were really struck!Ĭaligula’s precious metal coins are rare as he didnt reign too long for a julio claudian & his issues were melted down in mass after his death, by Nero during his reforms & possibly as a part of his damnatio memoriae(?) So they demand a heavy premium, along with Claudius.Item: 154477842326 Roman Empire Caligula AD 37-41 Silver Denarius NGC VF ULTRA RARE TWELVE CAESARS. For RIC, the main difference between silver/gold issues struck in Lugdunum and Rome is that Lugdunum issues were struck only in 37-38 and show a bare head of Caligula, and later issues struck in Rome depict him with a wreath. Here is an upgrade to my current Caligula denarius, a nice example with the portrait of Agrippina the elder on the reverse.Īccording to RIC, there is “practically no doubt” these issues were struck in Rome, although more modern authors contest this and say they were struck in Lugdunum. By 31 BCE, 13 years after Caesar’s assassination, having defeated. They had been defeated by the joint forces of Marcus Antonius most famous as the lover of Cleopatra of Egypt and Octavian, Julius Caesar’s adopted son and heir. I really like collecting coins of infamous people as much as I do respectable, famous people…perhaps even more lol. The seas were stormy, and the perilous nature of his journey only amplified the appearance of Caligulas devotion to the memory of his family. In 42 BCE, Brutus committed suicide after his army lost a crucial battle at Philippi in north-east Greece. ![]()
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