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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancientone, post: 2873721, member: 71599&quot;]I love all these early issues. My only Caligula is a worn but interesting AE from Philadelphia, Lydia.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]687445[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Lydia, Philadelphia. Caligula AE18. Dioscuri </b></p><p>Obv: ΓAIOΣ KAIΣAΡ, bare head right, star behind</p><p>Rev: ΦIΛAΔEΛΦEΩN ..., laureate and jugate busts of the Dioscuri right.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Older references identify imperial family members on the reverse but RPC identifies them as Dioscuri. RPC notes, &quot;That the jugate busts probably do not represent Germanicus and Agrippina I, Germanicus and Agrippina as Apollo and Artemis, or Apollo and Artemis (see BMC; Imhoof-Blumer, LS, pp. 116-117; Trillmich, Familienpropaganda der Kaiser und Claudius, pp. 130-131) since the further figure can sometimes be seen to be laureate (e.g. 2023/1 = BMC 53). It must therefore be male, and the two interpreted as the Dioscuri, who had previously appeared on the coinage of Philadelphia.&quot; The Dioscuri are also found on the imperial coinage of Caligula. In addition, since the magistrate named on the reverse is a priest, religious symbolism would be appropriate. The facial features of the reverse busts do, however, resemble members of the family of Caligula. Perhaps the they are Nero and Drusus Caesars as the brothers Castor and Pollux.&quot;</p><p>-FORVM ANCIENT COINS[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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