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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Twelve Caesars| > |Caligula| > RP75660
Caligula, 16 March 37 - 24 January 41 A.D., Smyrna, Ionia, Julia Drusilla Reverse
|Caligula|, |Caligula,| |16| |March| |37| |-| |24| |January| |41| |A.D.,| |Smyrna,| |Ionia,| |Julia| |Drusilla| |Reverse|, Julia Drusilla was her brother Caligula's favorite and was rumored to be his lover. In 38 A.D. she fell to fever. Caligula would not leave her side, and after she died, did not want anyone take her body away. He buried his sister with the honors of an Augusta, acted as a grieving widower, and had the Senate declare her a Goddess.
RP75660. Bronze AE 20, Klose XXVIII, 27 (Vs4/Rs10); RPC I 2472; SNG Cop 1343; SNGvA 2202; BMC Ionia p. 269, 272, F, dark green patina, scratches and scrapes, Smyrna (Izmir, Turkey) mint, weight 4.793g, maximum diameter 19.5mm, die axis 0o, 37 - 38 B.C.; obverse ΓAION KAICAPA EΠI AOYIOΛA, laureate head right; reverse ΔPOYCIΛΛAN ZMYPNAIΩN MHNOΦANHC, Drusilla as Persephone seated left, poppies between two stalks of grain in right hand, long scepter vertical behind in left hand; struck under Proconsul C. Calpurnius Aviola and Strategos Menophanes; scarce; SOLD











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