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Denarius - Claudius IMPER RECEPT

Uitgever Roman Imperial Mint
Jaar 46-47
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Valuta Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215)
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Beschrijving voorzijde Laureate head of Emperor Claudius facing right, rendered in the realistic portraiture style typical of Julio-Claudian coinage. The effigy displays the emperor's characteristic heavy features with a wreath of laurel leaves encircling the head. A draped shoulder is visible at the bust truncation. The encircling Latin legend runs along the outer border of the flan, naming the emperor with his full imperial titulature. The irregular flan edges are characteristic of hand-struck Roman Imperial denarii of this period.
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Opschrift voorzijde TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG P M TR P VI IMP XI
(Translation: Tiberius Claudius Caesar, emperor, high priest, holder of tribunician power for the sixth time, supreme commander for the eleventh time.)
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The IMPER RECEPT legend — "the emperor received" — commemorates the Praetorian Guard's role in elevating Claudius to power in 41 AD, a propagandistic callback to an event now half a decade past. Claudius, found hiding behind a curtain after Caligula's assassination, was technically the Guard's choice before the Senate's, and he never stopped paying that political debt. Issues referencing the acclamation continued well into his reign, long after most emperors would have moved on.

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