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Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-R0910 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey; Oman, Charles Maker: Tiberius I; Lugdunum Denomination: Denarius Place made: Lyons Culture: Roman Date made: AD 14-15 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 2.05 Weight (g): 3.63 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 2573. ex Sir Charles Oman collection 1949. |
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Description: Obverse: laureate head of Tiberius r. Reverse: Tiberius in slow quadriga r., holding laurel branch in r. hand and eagle-tipped sceptre in l., horses' heads all turned r.
The titles on this coin show that Tiberius was already in a position of great power before the death of Augustus. Tribunician power meant that he could call an assembly of the people, sit in the Senate, veto any law, and that his person was sacred and inviolable.
Inscriptions: Obverse: TI•CAESAR•DIVI•AVG•F•AVGVSTVS• (Tiberius Caesar Son of the Divine Augustus, Augustus) Reverse: TR•POT•XVI•IMP•VII• ([in his] sixteenth Tribunician Power, Victorious General seven times)
Bibliography: RIC I Tiberius 2; RIC I(2) Tiberius 2
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