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Denarius - Claudius S P Q R PP OB CS
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 46-47 |
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| Diameter | 18 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a corona civica (civic oak wreath) type, within which the honorific legend S P Q R / P P / OB CS is arranged in three horizontal lines across the field. The oak wreath, tied at the base with a ribbon, is rendered with individually articulated leaves and berries, filling the entire reverse field without an exergue line. This propagandistic type revives Augustan imagery to honor Claudius as Pater Patriae and savior of Roman citizens. |
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The reverse legend on this issue — S P Q R PP OB CS — records the Senate and Roman People honoring Claudius as Pater Patriae and for Ob Cives Servatos, "having saved the citizens," a distinction rooted in the old Republican corona civica tradition awarded to soldiers who saved a fellow Roman in battle. Claudius appropriated the civic crown rhetoric politically, aligning his principate with notions of civil protection rather than military conquest — pointed, given his actual military campaigns in Britain beginning in 43 AD.