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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;YOTHR, post: 18580742, member: 143785&quot;]<a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=7810&amp;pid=178909#top_display_media" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=7810&amp;pid=178909#top_display_media" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=7810&amp;pid=178909#top_display_media</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;No portrait of the young emperor Gaius Caligula, no head of another personality, no Roman or other deity, only the three letters RCC adorn the back of this bronze quadrans. They stand as an abbreviation for &quot;Remissa ducentesima&quot; (remission of the tax). The origins of this tax of one percent - the so-called &quot;centesima&quot; - date back to the time of the civil wars. It was levied in Rome and Italy on all goods put up for public sale at auction. It was collected by persons called &quot;coactores&quot; (Cic. ad Brut. 18, pro Rabir. Post. 11; Dig. 1 Tit. 16 s.17 §2). As mentioned, this tax is said to have been introduced at the time after the civil war (Tac. Ann. I.78) - Cicero mentions here that this was not the civil war between Octavian and Marcus Antonius, but from an earlier civil war, presumably between Marius and Sulla. Emperor Tiberius was later able to reduce the tax to half a percent (ducentesima) after he had turned Cappadocia into a province and thus increased the revenues of the empire (Tac. Ann. II.42). Caligula now abolished this tax at the beginning of his reign (RCC - Remissa ducentesima), as Suetonius (Suet. Kal. 16) reports - and this coin testifies here. The pileus depicted on the front is generally a symbol of freedom - which the young emperor propagated with this fiscal measure.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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