Claudius (41 - 54 AD) & Agrippina Junior Silver Denarius 3. 7gr. Limited Stock
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CLAUDIUS 41-54AD “REPLICA” DENARIUSClaudius & Agrippina Junior Denarius. Struck 50 AD.Obverse: TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG GERM P M TRIB POT P P, Portraitof Claudius.Reverse: AGRIPPINAE AVGVSTAE Portrait of Agrippina Junior, wreathedwith grain. Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar Drusus (August 1, 10 BC -October 13, 54), originally known as Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, was the fourth Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January24th 41 to his death in 54.... Born in Lugdunum in Gaul (modern-day Lyon, France), to Drusus and Antonia Minor, he was the first Roman Emperor to be born outsideItaly.Claudius was considered a rather unlikely man to becomeemperor. He reportedly walked with a heavy limp his entire life and spoke witha stammer, and his despairing family had virtually excluded him from publicoffice until his consulship with his nephew Caligula in 37. This infirmity mayhave saved him from the fate of many other Roman nobles during the purges ofTiberius and Caligula's reigns.Exclusion from public life suited his inclination towardsthe academic. Whilst still a boy Claudius started work on a Roman history whichopened with the murder of Julius Caesar, then skipped a few years and startedagain at the close of the Civil Wars in forty-three volumes. He also wrotetwenty volumes on Etruscan History and eight volumes on Carthaginian History.Lamentably none of these have survived.He also proposed a reform of the Roman alphabet by addingthree new letters.After a conspiracy of officers, including Cassius Chaerea, and Senators assassinated Caligula, a group of regular soldiers"appointed" Claudius his successor, thinking that in Claudius theywould have a pliant benefactor. Although Claudius had no intention of becomingEmperor, shortly after the Senate confirmed his status he embarked on severalambitious projects, one of which was the expansion of the Roman harbor atOstia. Rome enjoyed military success under Claudius as well. In 47, his legionsfinally subdued Britannia, bringing the restive province into the Empire forthe next 350 years.Claudius married four times. His first two marriages, toPlautia Urgulanilla and Aelia Paetina, ended in divorce. His third wife, Messalina, was put to death on his orders. His last wife was his nieceAgrippina, who was the mother of his successor, the notorious Nero.Urgulanilla gave birth to two children: a son, ClaudiusDrusus, and a daughter, Claudia. According to Suetonius, Claudius Drusus hadjust been betrothed to Junilla, the daughter of Sejanus, when he choked todeath on a pear he had thrown into the air and caught in his mouth. There wassome doubt as to Claudia's parentage, and Claudius eventually repudiated her.His second marriage produced one child, a daughter named Claudia Antonia.Messalina gave birth to two children: a son, Britannicus, and a daughter, Octavia.Because he was proclaimed emperor on the initiative of thePrætorian Guard instead of the Senate – the first emperor thus proclaimed –Claudius's repute suffered at the hands of commentators (such as Seneca) withaxes to grind. Moreover, he was the first Emperor who resorted to bribery as ameans to secure army loyalty. Nevertheless, his general approbation, incontrast to that of predecessors Tiberius and Caligula, is attested by hisapotheosis and the raising of the temple to Divus Claudius, on the Caelian Hillin Rome, following his death. Those who regard this homage by Agrippina ascynical should note that, cynical or not, such a move would hardly havebenefited those involved, had Claudius been "hated, " as somecommentators (even modern commentators) characterize him. Moreover, thoughClaudius's divinity was annulled by Nero, it was later restored by the"good" emperor Vespasian.Claudius was also the first emperor to be titulated"Caesar" purely as an honorific. (He had no legal claim to the name.)Caesar would thus become part of the nomenclature of every succeeding Romanemperor and would be adopted as the title of the German (Kaiser) and Russian(Czar) emperors.
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