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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, post: 6817017, member: 99554&quot;]Emperor Tiberius died in Misenum (Italy) on <b><span style="color: #ff0000">March 16th</span></b> 37AD, just before he turned 78 years old. But <i>how</i> did he died exactly ? I dont know, there are too many versions from ancient historians. So I&#039;ll present you the three most popular and you choose the one you like the best...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272324[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><i>He died shortly afterwards, at a villa formerly belonging to Lucullus, in the seventy-eighth year of his age, and the twenty-third of his reign, upon the seventeenth of the calends of April (16th March). Some think that a slow-consuming poison was given him by Caius. Others say that during the interval of the intermittent fever with which he happened to be seized, upon asking for food, it was denied him. Others report, that he was stifled by a pillow thrown upon him, when, on his recovering from a swoon, he called for his ring, which had been taken from him in the fit. Seneca writes, “That finding himself dying, he took his signet ring off his finger, and held it a while, as if he would deliver it to somebody; but put it again upon his finger, and lay for some time, with his left hand clenched, and without stirring; when suddenly summoning his attendants, and no one answering the call, he rose; but his strength failing him, he fell down at a short distance from his bed.</i> (<b>The lives of the twelve Caesar, Suetonius LXXIII</b>)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>On the 15th of March, his breath failing, he was believed to have expired, and Caius Cæsar was going forth with a numerous throng of congratulating followers to take the first possession of the empire, when suddenly news came that Tiberius was recovering his voice and sight, and calling for persons to bring him food to revive him from his faintness. Then ensued a universal panic, and while the rest fled hither and thither, every one feigning grief or ignorance, Caius Cæsar, in silent stupor, passed from the highest hopes to the extremity of apprehension. Macro, nothing daunted, ordered the old emperor to be smothered under a huge heap of clothes, and all to quit the entrance-hall</i>. (<b>Annales Tacitus VI, 50</b>)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>He died at Misenum before learning anything about the trials. He had been ill for a good while, but expecting to live because of Thrasyllus&#039; prophecy, he neither consulted his physicians nor changed his manner of life; and so, wasting away gradually, as he was well stricken in years and subject to a sickness that was not severe, he would often all but expire and then recover again. These changes would alternately cause Gaius and the rest great pleasure, when they thought he was going to die, and great fear, when they thought he would live. Gaius, therefore, fearing that his health might actually be restored, refused his requests for something to eat, on the ground that it would hurt him, and pretending that he needed warmth, wrapped him up in many thick clothes and so smothered him, being aided to a certain extent by Macro</i>. (<b>Roman History, Cassius Dio, LXIII, 28</b>)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The coinage</b></p><p><b>Tiberius</b> broadly followed the pattern put in place by his predecessor, both because the coinage renovated by Augustus was considered an integral part of his political heritage and because the quantities produced at the end of the Republic and under Augustus had been considerable. He does not introduce major changes in the denominations. In addition to a few early strikes in the continuation of the Augustan coinage, <b>Tiberius</b> minted in his effigy many series of gold and silver with the legend PONTIFEX MAXIMVS and a reverse representing a seated female figure, probably Livia, already present on the last series of Augustus. </p><p><br /></p><p>He also developed bronze coinage, mainly in Rome. Once at the head of the empire, <b>Tiberius</b> celebrated his Augustan lineage, the basis of his power, especially on bronze coinage, whose iconography, which had remained relatively sober and fixed under Augustus, is much more original. While many base metal issues, mostly of 22-23 AD, publicized <b>Tiberius</b>&#039; own deeds and honors, the pluriality of his coins type were actually issued bearing the posthumus portrait of Augustus. The <i>aes</i> of Rome was rich in both pictorial and verbal information ; there were references to Livia, Drusus, Drusus&#039; twins sons, the imperial virtues of Justitia, Pietas, Salus, Clementia, Moderatio, and to Tiberius&#039; relief of earthquake-striken cities in Asia. Also a new school of engravers and designer had suddenly arisen at the mint of Rome, bringing the arts of lettering, portraiture and balanced design to a height never before reached, with particular care paid to the newly pictorial sestertius.</p><p><b>So on the day he passed away, show me your Tiberius&#039; examples !</b></p><p>(Of course you can show-off your &quot;tribute penny&quot;.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Tiberius As Lugdunum</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272326[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Tiberius As Magnesia ad sipylum</p><p>Issued to honor the help of the Emperor after the earthquake of 17 AD</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272325[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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