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Augustus (27 BC-AD 14). AV aureus (19mm, 7.84 gm, 8h). NGC Choice VF 5/5 - 3/5. Lugdunum, 8 BC. AVGVSTVS-DIVI•F, laureate head of Augustus right / C•CAES / AVGVS•F, Gaius Caesar on horse leaping right, reins in right hand, sword and shield in left; aquila between two standards in background. Calicó 174. RIC I 198. Fetching example struck on a honey toned flan.
Already planning ahead for his succession, in 8 BC Augustus introduced his twelve-year-old grandson and adopted son Gaius Caesar to the Roman army in Gaul. Gaius subsequently accompanied the future emperor Tiberius on campaign against the Sicambri on the Rhine frontier, and two years later he became Rome's youngest consul to date at the age of 14. The bulla around Gaius' neck signifies that he was still a child and had not yet assumed the toga of manhood (J. Pollini, Gaius Caesar on horseback, Museum Notes 30, 1985).
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Augustus (27 BC-AD 14). AV aureus (19mm, 7.84 gm, 8h). NGC Choice VF 5/5 - 3/5. Lugdunum, 8 BC. AVGVSTVS-DIVI•F, laureate head of Augustus right / C•CAES / AVGVS•F, Gaius Caesar on horse leaping right, reins in right hand, sword and shield in left; aquila between two standards in background. Calicó 174. RIC I 198. Fetching example struck on a honey toned flan.
Already planning ahead for his succession, in 8 BC Augustus introduced his twelve-year-old grandson and adopted son Gaius Caesar to the Roman army in Gaul. Gaius subsequently accompanied the future emperor Tiberius on campaign against the Sicambri on the Rhine frontier, and two years later he became Rome's youngest consul to date at the age of 14. The bulla around Gaius' neck signifies that he was still a child and had not yet assumed the toga of manhood (J. Pollini, Gaius Caesar on horseback, Museum Notes 30, 1985).
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