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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsman, post: 4984475, member: 99177&quot;]Beautiful coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>This is my ‘grandchildren coin’ with the youthful face of grandpa Augustus.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1197493[/ATTACH] </p><p>Augustus, denarius.</p><p>RIC I 207, RSC 43.</p><p>Lugdunum mint.</p><p>19.5 mm, 3.8 g</p><p>Obv. CAESAR AVGVSTVS DIVI F PATER PATRIAE, laureate head right.</p><p>Rev. AVGVSTI F COS DESIG PRINC IVVENT, C L CAESARES below, Gaius and Lucius standing front, each with a hand resting on a round shield, a spear, and in field above, a lituus right and simpulum left.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gaius and Lucius were adopted in 17 BC by their maternal grandfather Augustus, who named the two boys his heirs. They were raised and educated by their grandparents. Lucius died in Gaul of an illness in 2 A.D and Gaius died two years later in Lycia, after being wounded during a campaign in Artagira. The death of both Gaius and Lucius, the Emperor&#039;s two most favored heirs, compelled Augustus to adopt his stepson, Tiberius, and his sole remaining grandson, Postumus Agrippa as his new respective heirs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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