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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Twelve Caesars| > |Tiberius| > SL94002
Tiberius, 19 August 14 - 16 March 37 A.D.
|Tiberius|, |Tiberius,| |19| |August| |14| |-| |16| |March| |37| |A.D.|, The Altar of Lugdunum and the Sanctuary of the Three Gauls were dedicated by Augustus on 1 August 10 B.C., the very same day Drusus' son, the future emperor Claudius, was born in Lugdunum. All the notable men of Gaul were invited. Caius Julius Vercondaridubnus, a member of the Aedui tribe, was the first priest of the new imperial cult. The altar, which was engraved with the names of 60 Gallic tribes, was featured prominently on coins from the Lugdunum mint for many years.
SL94002. Orichalcum sestertius, RIC I Augustus 241a (R2), BMCRE I Augustus 570, Cohen I 29, cf. SRCV I 1753 (bare head), BnF I Augustus 1737 (bare head left), NGC Ch F, strike 4/5, surface 3/5 (3989004-017), Lugdunum (Lyon, France) mint, weight 25.02g, maximum diameter 34mm, die axis 345o, as caesar under Augustus, 8 -10 A.D.; obverse TI CAESAR AVGVST F IMPERATOR V (counterclockwise from lower right), laureate head right; reverse Altar of Lugdunum (dedicated to Rome and Augustus), decorated with corona civica between laurels and nude male figures, flanked by two columns each surmounted by a statue of Victory facing center raising a wreath, ROM ET AVG in exergue; NGC| Lookup; very rare; SOLD




  






REFERENCES

Price, M.J. & B. Trell. Coins and Their Cities: Architecture on the Ancient Coins of Greece, Rome, and Palestine. (London, 1977).

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