Roma Numismatics Ltd
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Augustus AV Aureus. Lugdunum, 2 BC - AD 4. CAESAR AVGVSTVS DIVI F PATER PATRIAE, laureate head right / AVGVSTI F COS DESIG PRINC IVVENT, Gaius and Lucius Caesar standing facing, each togate and resting hand on shield; spear behind each shield, lituus and simpulum above, C L CAESARES in exergue. RIC 206; BMCRE 515; Calicó 176; Lyon 81; BN 1648. 7.86g, 20mm, 3h.
Extremely Fine; a well preserved example of the type.
From the inventory of a UK dealer.
The eldest sons of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia, daughter of Augustus, were the emperor's cherished grandsons who after the death of his nephew and heir Marcus Claudius Marcellus were formally adopted by Augustus in 17 BC as his sons and heirs to the principate. Augustus, mostly by himself, taught Gaius and Lucius how to read and swim, as well as how to imitate his own handwriting. He insisted that they earn the applause of people, instead of allowing them to receive it freely. Their adoptive father initiated them into administrative life when they were still young, and sent them to the provinces as consuls-elect. It is unknown what their natural father Agrippa thought privately of the adoption, but ever a staunch friend and ally, in public he loyally acquiesced and in the same year was dispatched to Syria to command the eastern provinces with proconsular imperium maius.
Extremely Fine; a well preserved example of the type.
From the inventory of a UK dealer.
The eldest sons of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia, daughter of Augustus, were the emperor's cherished grandsons who after the death of his nephew and heir Marcus Claudius Marcellus were formally adopted by Augustus in 17 BC as his sons and heirs to the principate. Augustus, mostly by himself, taught Gaius and Lucius how to read and swim, as well as how to imitate his own handwriting. He insisted that they earn the applause of people, instead of allowing them to receive it freely. Their adoptive father initiated them into administrative life when they were still young, and sent them to the provinces as consuls-elect. It is unknown what their natural father Agrippa thought privately of the adoption, but ever a staunch friend and ally, in public he loyally acquiesced and in the same year was dispatched to Syria to command the eastern provinces with proconsular imperium maius.