Aureus 50-54, 7.82 g. TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG GERM P M TRIB POT P P Laureate head of Claudius r. Rev. AGRIPPINAE – AVGVSTAE Draped bust of Agrippina Minor r., wearing barley wreath. RIC 80. BMC 72. C 3. CBN 79. Vagi 655. Calicó 396d.


Molded glass medallion of Germanicus (c. 20-40 CE), brother of Claudius and husband of Agrippina the Elder. Germanicus is shown surrounded by the heads of three of his six children portrayed as infants. VROMA 


Caligula  AE sestertius.  Struck 37-38 AD.
Obverse: C CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS PON M TR POT, laureate head left.
Reverse: S P Q R/P P/OB CIVES/SERVATOS in four lines within oak wreath.
RIC  37; BMCRE 38; Cohen 24.

This coin is far from being rare: one can find dozens of specimens at coinarchives.
Comparing it with other examples I noticed a certain specificity in the execution
of the reverse. It seems that the engraver use a lot of centering dots and nods, e.g.
there are several ones inside loops of the ribbon. It is quite odd.
Could this specimen be not from  Rome mint?  (From Poster)

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Aspurgus, with Gaius (Caligula). AD 14-38. Æ 12 Unit (25mm, 9.56 g). Struck AD 37-38. Bare head of Caligula right / Diademed head of Aspurgus right; monogram and IB in fields. MacDonald 302; RPC I 1904; Anokhin 320.  (Used with permission of Joe Geranio-Collection)

SPAIN, Italica. Tiberius. AD 14-37. Æ “As” (29mm, 12.61 g, 9h). Bare head right / Square altar inscribed in three lines. RPC I 65; Burgos 1250; SNG Copenhagen 417. Joe Geranio Collection.



Aureus 37-38, 7.73 g. C CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR POT Bare head of Gaius r. Rev. DIVVS AVG PATER PATRIAE Radiate head of Augustus r. RIC 15. BMC 16. C 1. CBN 19. Vagi 310. Calicó 332 .


Bronze. NERWN SEBASSTOS - KAISAR. Kopf links. Rs: RWMH SEBASSTH QESSALONIKEWN. Roma mit Lanze und Parazonium en face stehend, den Kopf nach rechts gewandt. SNG Cop. 406. RPC 1602. 

Nero- Courtesy Joe Geranio

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 23.47 g). Uncertain Balkan mint, possibly Perinthus in Thrace. Struck circa AD 63(?). Laureate bust right, wearing aegis(?) / Nero on horseback prancing right; soldier before and behind. Cf. RIC I 107.  Centering mark.

The use of the centering pivot mark, and general details of fabric and metal suggest an attribution to the uncertain Balkan mint. The minting of imperial type bronzes in the Balkans was much more extensive than previously known. 




Bronze. NERWN KAISAR. Kopf links. Rs: SEBASTOS MAKEDONWN. Makedonischer Schild; das Ganze in Perlkreislinie. SNG Cop. 1335. BMC 146. AMNG 242. RPC 1614. 8,46g. 


LYDIA, Nicaea Cilbianorum. Gaius and Lucius Caesars. 5 BC-2 AD. Æ 17mm (4.78 gm). Conjoined bare heads of Gaius and Lucius Caesars right / Demos standing left, extending hand; ARATOS GRAMMATEUS (magistrate). RPC I 1708; SNG 
Copenhagen 105. 

Nero Denarius-  Used with permission of Joe Geranio


Agrippa. Lieutenant of Augustus, 38 BC-AD 12. Æ As (29mm, 10.96 g). Rome mint. Struck under Caligula, AD 37-41. Head left, wearing rostral crown / Neptune standing left, holding small dolphin and trident. RIC I 58 (Caligula).


EGYPT, Alexandria. Nero, with Poppaea. AD 54-68. Tetradrachm (24mm, 12.49 g, 12h). Dated RY 10 (AD 63/4). Radiate head of Nero right / Draped bust of Poppaea Sabina right; date in right field. Köln 157-158; Dattari 196; Milne 217-221; Emmett 128.

PHRYGIA, Aezanis. Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ 20mm (6.06 g, 12h). Antiochus Metrogenes, magistrate. Laureate head right / Zeus Aezanis standing left, holding eagle and scepter; ANTIO XOY MHTPOGENOYC in legend. RPC I 3090; SNG Copenhagen 85,


LYDIA, Philadelphia. Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ 15mm (3.98 g). Laureate head of Caligula right / Panther walking right, head turned left, thyrsus over shoulder. RPC I 3033. 

LYDIA, Philadelphia. Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ 17mm (4.73 g). Bare head of Caligula right / Capricorn left with cornucopiae; monogram before. RPC I 3029.


Gaius (Caligula), with Germanicus. AD 37-41. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.60 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 37-38. Laureate head of Gaius (Caligula) right / Bare head of Germanicus right. RIC I 18; BMCRE 19; RSC 2.


Tiberius. As Caesar, AD 4-14. Æ As (27mm, 10.91 g). Lugdunum mint. Struck AD 12-14. Laureate head right / Altar of Lugdunum flanked by Victories on columns. RIC I 245 (Augustus); BMCRE 585 (Augustus). 


Caligula Aureus- Defaced or Check for Gold Content?

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Aspurgus, with Gaius (Caligula). AD 14-38. Æ 12 Unit (25mm, 9.56 g). Struck AD 37-38. Bare head of Caligula right / Diademed head of Aspurgus right; monogram and IB in fields. MacDonald 302; RPC I 1904; Anokhin 320.  Joe Geranio


Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 27.56 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 66. Laureate head left, globe at point of bust / Port of Ostia with eight ships within the harbor, at the top is a pharus surmounted by a statue of Neptune, below is a reclining figure of Tiber, holding a rudder and dolphin. RIC I 513; WCN 458.

While Julius Caesar recognized the value of expanding Rome's port facilitites at Ostia, it was Claudius who began actual building in 42 AD. As part of the construction, one of Caligula's pleasure galleys was scuttled and filled with cement; above it was constructed a lighthouse surmounted by a statue of Neptune. Although the actual date of completion is not certain, it must have occurred shortly before this sestertius was minted. A further expansion of the facilities was required under Trajan and Hadrian. By the fourth century, however, the port's importance began to diminish as a result of silting. Soon the region became a breeding ground for malaria and was abandoned.  


Claudius für Antonia.. Dupondius 41/50, zur Erinnerung an die Mutter des Kaisers. Büste / Kaiser in Toga mit Simpulum. RIC 92; C. 6. 12.86 g.


Aureus circa 41–45, 7.74 g. ANTONIA – AVGVSTA Draped bust r., wearing crown of corn-ears. Rev. CONSTANTIAE – AVGVSTI Antonia as Constantia standing facing, holding long torch and cornucopia. Kent-Hirmer pl. 51, 177. RIC Claudius 65. BMC Claudius 109. C 1. CBN Claudius 12. Vagi 499. Calicó 318. Rare. Reddish tone and good very fine
This aureus was struck by the emperor Claudius in honour of a deceased parent – in this case his mother, Antonia. Neither of Claudius’ parents had been honoured with coinage during the previous three regimes, so the task was left to their afflicted 50-year-old son, whom no one could have predicted would one day be emperor. Antonia, even more so than Livia, was the model of a Roman noblewoman. Her parents Marc Antony and Octavia (Augustus’ sister) represented both sides of the civil war that ended at the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C., and from her father, who died shortly after Actium, she inherited an economic empire in the east. Throughout her life Antonia managed her considerable business, political and domestic responsibilities with skill and personal flair. While in her late teens Antonia married Livia’s youngest son Nero Claudius Drusus, with whom she seems to have been ideally matched. Together they had three children, with the youngest (the future emperor Claudius) being born in the summer of 10 B.C. on the same day her husband dedicated the Altar of Lugdunum to Augustus. To Antonia at that time, life must have seemed unimprovable. However, the remainder of her life would be a string of sore disappointments. In 9 B.C. her husband died tragically (and she refused ever to remarry), her youngest son Claudius developed severe physical disabilities, her promising son Germanicus was murdered in A.D. 19, and her only daughter, Livilla, was forcibly starved to death (by Antonia herself) after it was exposed that she had poisoned her husband. Antonia’s grandchildren fared no better: the three girls were terribly disturbed and unfortunate, her two eldest grandsons were executed after being branded public enemies, and the behaviour of her youngest grandson, Caligula, was so objectionable that many historians believe Antonia took her own life in 37 because she could not face the prospect of living in the reign of Caligula. The reverse of this aureus features Antonia in the guise of Constantia, the personification of courage and perseverance, both qualities for which she was renowned.

ANTONIA MINOR. Died 37 AD. AR Denarius (3.62 g, 8h). Rome mint. Struck under Claudius, 41-42 AD. ANTONIA AVGVSTA, laureate and draped bust right / SACERDOS DIVI AVGVSTI, two long torches linked by ribbon. RIC I 68 (Claudius); von Kaenel Type 15 (unlisted dies); Lyon 31 (Lugdunum); RSC 5; BMCRE 114 (Claudius); cf. BN 15 (Claudius; aureus)


d=19 mm
Denar, 41-42. ANTONIA - AVGVSTA. Drapierte Büste mit ährenkranz rechts. Rs: CONSTANTIAE - AVGVSTI. Antonia in Gestalt der Constantia mit Stabfackel und Füllhorn en face stehend. RIC 66. C. 2. BMC 111. CBN 14. 3,59g


Caligula, 37 - 41 n. Chr. AE (8,08 g.), Vs.: G KAISAR [SEBASTOS] QESSALONIKEWN, Kopf des Caligula mit Lorbeerkranz l. Rs.: ANTWNIA SEBASTH, verschleierte Büste der Antonia n. l. RPC 1575; Touratsoglou 20.


Caligula, 37 - 41 n. Chr. AE Sesterz, (29,74 g.), 37 - 38 n. Chr. Mzst. Rom. Vs.: C CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS PON M TR POT, Kopf mit Lorbeerkranz n. l. Rs.: SPQR / PP / OB CIVES / SERVATOS im Eichenkranz. RIC 37; BMC 38. 


GERMANICUS, father of Caligula, †AD 19. As, posthumous, struck by his brother Claudius, about 42-43. AE 10.14 g. GERMANICVS. CAESAR. TI. AVG. F. DIVI. AVG. N Bare head r. Rev. TI. CLAVDIVS. CAESAR. AVG. GERM. PM. TR. P. IMP around SC. RIC 129, 106. C. 9. BN II, 105, 241.


MACEDON, Philippi. Tiberius. AD 14-37. Æ 17mm (3.93 g). Laureate head right / Founder standing right, behind two yoked oxen. RPC I 1657.  (Used with permission of Joe Geranio)


Nero and Claudius Sestertius - (Used with Permission of Joe Geranio)


Gold Quinarius 18/19, Lugdunum. TI DIVI F - AVGVSRVS Head, laureate, to r. Rev. TR POT - XX Victory seated on globe to r., holding patera. 3,72 g. RIC 6. BMC 67. 


GAIUS CALIGULA and DIVUS AUGUSTUS. 37-41 AD. AR Denarius (3.61 gm). Struck 37-38 AD. Lugdunum mint. Laureate head of Caligula right; c/m: IMP VES ligate within rectangular incuse / Radiate head of Divus Augustus right. RIC I 16; BMCRE 17; RSC 2; c/m: Howgego 839; see BMCRE vol. II, pg. xvii where it is mentioned that the countermark is found on denarii from about 120 BC to those struck under Augustus.

The countermark on this issue indicates the continued use of older coins in circulation and the occasional need to identify them as acceptable media of exchange. Subsequently, there was a general recall of worn issues by Trajan in 107 AD. 

 
Tiberius. AD 14-37. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.55 g, 5h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Group 5, AD 36-37. Laureate head right / PONTIF MAXIM, Livia (as Pax) seated right on chair, holding sceptre and olive branch; feet on footstool; single-line below chair; ornate chair legs. RIC I 29; Calicó 305c.


CAPPADOCIA, Caesarea. Nero and Divus Claudius. AD 54-68. AR Didrachm (22mm, 7.52 g). Laureate head of Nero right / Laureate head of Claudius right. RPC I 3647; Sydenham, Caesarea 68; RIC I 620.


Nero. AD 54-68. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.34 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 64-65. Laureate head right / Nero radiate and togate standing facing, holding branch in right hand and Victory on a globe in left hand. RIC I 46; BMCRE 56; Calicó 402. The reverse depicts the Colossus, a 120 foot tall bronze statue of Nero as Sol that was created by Zenodorus for the vestibule of the Domus Aurea, or Golden House, the massive palace constructed by Nero after the fire of 64 AD. The statue was destroyed after Nero's downfall in 68, but its memory was retained in the popular name of the amphitheater constructed by the Flavians at the same site-the Colosseum. 

Cn. Domitius L.f. Ahenobarbus. 41 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.90 g, 6h). Uncertain mint along the Adriatic or Ionian Sea. AHENOBAR before, bare head of Ahenobarbus right / CN. DOMITIVS. IMP, military trophy on prow right. Crawford 519/2; CRI 339; Sydenham 1177; Kestner 3802; BMCRR East 94; Domitia 21.

Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, accompanied his father at Corfinium and Pharsalus on the side of Pompey. After his pardon by Julius Caesar, he retired to Rome in 46 BC. After Caesar's assassination, Ahenobarbus supported Brutus and Cassius, and in 43 BC was condemned under the terms of the Lex Pedia for complicity in the assassination. Ahenobarbus achieved considerable naval success against the Second Triumvirate in the Ionian theater, where this denarius was certainly minted, but finally, through the mediation of Gaius Asinius Pollio, he reconciled with Mark Antony, who thereupon made him governor of Bithynia. He pariticipated in Antony's campaign against the Parthians, and was consul in 32 BC. When war broke out between Antony and Octavian, he initially supported Antony, but, disgusted Antony’s assignations with Cleopatra VII of Egypt, Ahenobarbus sided with Octavian shortly before Actium. His only child, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, was married to Antonia Maior, the daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia. Their son, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, married Agrippina the Younger, the sister of the emperor Caligula, and was the father of the emperor Nero.

PHRYGIA, Laodicea ad Lycum. Gaius, Caesar. Æ 15mm (3.88 g). Anto. Polemon Philopatris, magistrate. Struck circa 5 BC. Bare head right / LAODIKEWN, eagle with spread wings between two monograms. RPC I 2900. 




PHRYGIA, Siblia. Gaius, Caesar. Æ 17mm (5.18 g). Ioulious Kallikles Kallistratou, magistrate. Struck circa 5 BC. Bare head right / KALLI/KLHS/KALLISTR/ATOU SIB/L/ANWN in five lines. RPC I 3162.2 = Von Aulock, Phrygiens I 884 = Lindgren and Kovacs 1030 (this coin). 

CORINTHIA, Corinth. Agrippina Sr, mother of Gaius (Caligula). Died 33 AD. Æ 20mm (6.32 g). P. Vipsanius Agrippa and M. Bellius Proculus, duovirs. Struck under Caligula, 37-38 AD. Draped bust right / M BELLI[O PROCVLO IIVIR], NED in field, Confronted head of Nero and Drusus Caesars. RPC I 1175; Amandry XVII. 

PHRYGIA, Laodicea. Gaius, Caesar, grandson of Augustus. Æ 14mm (3.84 g). Struck circa 5 AD. Anto Polemon Philopatris, magistrate. Bare head right / Eagle with spread wings between two monograms. RPC I 2900. 


PHRYGIA, Philomelium. Agrippina Junior. Augusta, AD 50-59. Æ 25mm (11.80 g). Brocchoi, magistrate. Struck AD 50-54. Draped bust right / Tripod between vexillum and palm; star above. RPC I 3246.6 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 3920.  Rare!!


Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ As (28mm, 9.94 g). Rome mint. M. Salvius Otho, moneyer. Struck 7 BC. Bare head left / Legend around large S C. RIC I 432; BMCRE 233; BN 704.