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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Spaniard, post: 8151001, member: 90248&quot;]I&#039;m on the road at the moment, hence the shortness of the thread, but wanted to share this recent pick up of a not so well known, once future heir of the Roman Empire..</p><p>Phrygia, Laodikeia. Gaius Caesar, grandson of Augustus. AE 15mm (3.53 gm). Struck circa 5 AD under the magistrate Antonius Polemon Philopatris.</p><p>Obv.: ΓΑΙΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ (GAIOS KAISAR), bare head right.</p><p>Rev.: Eagle with spread wings between two monograms ΠΟΛΕ (left),ΦΙΛΟΠΑΤ (right),(&quot;Polemon&quot; and &quot;Philopatris&quot;). ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ (LAODIKEON) below. RPC I 2900; BMC 154. VF.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1421816[/ATTACH] </p><p>His mother was &quot;Julia the Elder&quot; daughter of Augustus and his father was the great Roman General &quot;Marcus Agrippa&quot;..</p><p>Gaius and his younger brother Lucius were both adopted by Augustus as his sons and joint-heirs to the Empire.Tragically they would both die young, Lucius of an unknown illness in Massalia on 20th August AD 2 aged 18, whilst travelling to Hispania and only 18 months later, Gaius of a wound incurred whilst in a peace treaty with Rebel leader Abbadon in the city of Artagira Armenia on 9th September AD 2 but didn&#039;t die until 21st February AD 4 (aged 23)...Interestingly Tacitus and Cassius Dio both claim that possibly Livia, their step grandmother, had a hand in their demise wanting her own son Tiberius to become the next heir, &quot;Food for thought&quot;!.....Paul</p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to post your coins of Gaius, Lucius, Tiberius, Livia or anything else you think might be interesting...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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