oh no...Caligula!

I was talking about Hadrian's Wall which is in England.

The Antoinine Wall was a later much inferior wall that the Romans built when they tried to spread further north. Ever wonder why they abandoned the attempt and fell back to Hadrian's Wall? The terrain favoured the Scots and not an heavly armoured Roman army.

 

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The coin you have at the top of this thread is not Caligula, but his father Germanicus.

Joe Geranio

 

Perhaps he could have simply charged the Scots a toll to keep them out of England? :whistle:

 

Joe Geranio,
Are you basing this on the characteristics of the portrait.I read the dissertation on the subject that you posted today with great interest.
I think you are correct and that the coin might have been issued posthumously by Caligula to honor his father.Can you give me more info?

 

Hello
Joe is correct, this coin has been struck in Rome AD37-38 by Caligula in honour of his deceased father Germanicus. It is not the carectristic of the portrait, but the name that appears on both sides is Germanicus
See RCV vol I #1821

Cucumbor

 

It is worth noting that when Hadrian's Wall was first built, many of its forts actually faced south into the heart of the Brigantian territory. This suggests that initially it was not the Picts who were the greatest threat to the Roman occupation of northern Britain the scots at this time lived in Ireland LOL and the English (Anglo Saxons) were still happily living in Germany and it's lovely forests. It was also a way to regulate trade into the empires territory there is a similar wall's on the old roman frontiers in Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia & Turkey.

De Orc

 

Sorry, but while the it's likely that the coin was issued by Caligula, Bootsie's face isn't on it. That's the profile of his father the noble Germanicus.

Those coins with the emperor Gaius on them have the word Gaius on them as In Gius Julius Caeser....Sorry.

 

Actually,the name Gius never appears on his coins,he used his first initial C fo Caius=Gaius and Dad's name Germanicus.So the reverse of my coin IS Caligula's inscription but all of you are correct that the obverse is Germanicus senior.
So here is the new label....Thanks everyone.

 

As to Hadrian, he wasn't as good as his reputation. He went nuts after his boyfriend Antinous was murdered and ended up as bad as Caligula. He personally provoked the Bar Kochba revolt and offed a significant percentage of the Roman Senate.

There was dancing in the streets of Rome when he died.

 

Caligula (GErmanicus)

Beautiful portrait!! of Germanicus. I think Germanicus is harder to find anyway.

Joe Geranio

 

Trajan is my favorite, he was the man. So, he became emperor, decided that rome was in major need of repair. The previous Emperor was one of the weakest in history, and accomplished nothing. Once Emperor, what does he do? He goes out and conquers Dacia (bulgaria-ish region), which no one had been able to do for hundreds of years, takes tons of gold and hundreds of tons of silver, and rebuilds rome. He also conqured persia and some parts of wales, and the empire was at its largest under his reign.

Very nice coins, everyone! I have a few uncleaned ones I've been working on, but the only one I've managed to make out is one from Jovian...he had a very interesting reign. Previous emperor Julian leads a massive campaign deep into persia, but dies. Jovian was only the second choice for emperor, and after hearing this, the persians attacked all-out causing jovian to sue for peace. Jovian if forced to give back all the thousand miles of territory in exchange for whats left of his armies free passage back to the empire. Shortly after this defeat, he dies of "dubious circumstances". Talk about a letdown.
Total reign ~ 7 months

 

All that great history, and most kids today will only associate "Nero" with CD/DVD burning software :goofer: