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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 637

Roman Empire, Augustus (27 BC - AD 14), AV Aureus, struck 8 BC, Lugdunum, laureate head of Augustus right, DIVI • F before, and AVGVSTVS behind, rev. Gaius Caesar on horse leaping right, reins in right hand, sword and shield in left, aquila between two standards in background, C • CAES above, AVGVS • F in exergue, 7.79g [120.2grns], 6h (Cohen 39; BMC 498; RIC I, 198; Bahrfeldt 233; Calicó 174), removed from a mount at 12 o'clock with traces of gilding and slight sweating in fields, otherwise residually lustrous, a bolder very fine, a trace of red wax in recesses, a poignant and scarce issue

Already planning for his succession, Augustus introduced his twelve year-old grandson and adopted son Gaius Caesar to the Roman army in Gaul. Gaius subsequently accompanied the future emperor Tiberius on campaign against the Sicambri on the Rhine frontier, and two years later he became Rome's youngest consul to date at the age of 14. The bulla around Gaius' neck signifies that he was still a child and had not yet assumed the toga of manhood.

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