Caligula. Does anyone have info on what this coin says or is there a place that show the coin and translates it? Thanks.
I'm certainly no expert when it comes to this type of thing, but based on descriptions of other sales, it is a Quadrans and the text is: C CAESAR DIVI AVG PRON AVG around S-C PON M TR P IIII P P COS TERT around RCC Aside from the typical myriad of references to the Emperors qualities (Caesar, Augustus, Deified, Blah, Blah), I have no idea what the rest means Would also be interested to know though, especially the reverse (around RCC)
Glad you got your acceptance. Maybe this will help for future identifying https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/abb.html
this should help you get started-- C CAESAR DIVI AVG PRON AVG around pileus between S C PON M TR P IIII P P COS TERT around R C C From CNG- “This series of quadrantes commemorated the abolition of 0.5% tax remaining from an original 1% tax created by Augustus. The first half was removed by Tiberius. RCC stands for remissa ducentesima, or “removal of 1/200” [tax]. The removal of this burden on the people is symbolized by the pileus (cap of freedom)”
Not at all! I was primarily interested in a different coin from the same dealer and only considered adding that one as an order filler. It's a nice little quadrans, hope you enjoy it!
Let's translate C CAESAR DIVI AVG PRON AVG around S-C Caius Caesar divi Augusti pronepos Augustus : Caius Caesar, great-grandson of the divine Augustus, Augustus PON M TR P IIII P P COS TERT around RCC Pontifex Maximus, tribuniciae potestatis III, Pater Patriae, Consul tertium : Great Pontiff, in his 3rd Tribunician Power, Father of the Country, 3 times Consul. S C : Senatus Consulto : (coin minted) by Senate's decree R CC : Remissa Ducentesima : Abolition of the 1/200 tax (There was a tax of 1/200, i.e. 0.5%, on public auctions. Caligula abolished it)
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=7810&pid=178909#top_display_media "No portrait of the young emperor Gaius Caligula, no head of another personality, no Roman or other deity, only the three letters RCC adorn the back of this bronze quadrans. They stand as an abbreviation for "Remissa ducentesima" (remission of the tax). The origins of this tax of one percent - the so-called "centesima" - date back to the time of the civil wars. It was levied in Rome and Italy on all goods put up for public sale at auction. It was collected by persons called "coactores" (Cic. ad Brut. 18, pro Rabir. Post. 11; Dig. 1 Tit. 16 s.17 §2). As mentioned, this tax is said to have been introduced at the time after the civil war (Tac. Ann. I.78) - Cicero mentions here that this was not the civil war between Octavian and Marcus Antonius, but from an earlier civil war, presumably between Marius and Sulla. Emperor Tiberius was later able to reduce the tax to half a percent (ducentesima) after he had turned Cappadocia into a province and thus increased the revenues of the empire (Tac. Ann. II.42). Caligula now abolished this tax at the beginning of his reign (RCC - Remissa ducentesima), as Suetonius (Suet. Kal. 16) reports - and this coin testifies here. The pileus depicted on the front is generally a symbol of freedom - which the young emperor propagated with this fiscal measure."
