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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RaceBannon, post: 1853678, member: 25357&quot;]Much like Bing, I took a bit of a hiatus from buying coins this fall.&nbsp; But I&#039;m still working on the 12 Caesars collection I started earlier last year.&nbsp; I was at a local coin show today and came across this Caligula that I just had to have.&nbsp; So I bought it! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>History has painted Caligula as a bit of a monster, because of course...he was.&nbsp; Shortly after his assumption of Power Rome witnessed a series of unsettling events.&nbsp; The commander of the Preatorian guard was murdered within a year of Caligula taking power, removing an authority figure that might have checked his excesses.&nbsp; Caligula had some rather deviant flaws such as sexually assaulting women at orgies he threw, and he enjoyed watching people be tortured to death.&nbsp; By the time Caligula announced his intention to have his pampered pet horse Incitatus made a member of the Senate, there were already several plots afoot to assassinate this madman.&nbsp; In January AD 41 while he was watching a gladiatorial show, a tribune of the imperial guard stabbed him to death.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Never before had this loyal body of men shown itself willing to betray the emperor, but Caligula had made the mistake of alienating them by surrounding himself with an exotic entourage of German troops.&nbsp; The plot against Caligula taught future conspirators an important lesson: first ensure the complicity of the Praetorian Guard.&quot; (Emperors of Rome; D Potter)</p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to post your Caligula</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Caligula</b>: AD 37-41</p><p>AE As; 30mm/10.9g</p><p>Obv: C CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS PON M TR POT, bare head left</p><p>Rev: VESTA above, S C across field, Vesta seated left, holding patera and sceptre.</p><p>(RIC I 38, Cohen 27)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]310115[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]310116[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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