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Denarius - Caligula and Augustus DIVVS AVG PATER PATRIAE
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 41 |
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| Value | 1 Denarius |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | DIVVS AVG PATER PATRIAE (Translation: Divus Augustus, Pater Patriae. Augustus, the divine father of the nation.) |
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Caligula issued this denarius in 37–38 AD, early in his reign, pairing his own authority with the deified Augustus in a calculated bid for dynastic legitimacy — he had no military record and a thin claim to popular confidence beyond his father Germanicus's name. The DIVVS AVG PATER PATRIAE reverse explicitly frames Augustus as the father of the fatherland, a title Caligula himself would later demand with considerably less patience for those who hesitated to grant it.
RIC I 31 is among the better-documented types of Caligula's coinage, struck at Rome before his increasingly erratic behavior disrupted court and administration alike.