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Didrachm - Claudius P P OB CIVES SERVATOS
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 41-54 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P (Translation: Tiberius Claudius Caesar, emperor (Augustus), high priest, holder of tribunician power.) |
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The Claudius "OB CIVES SERVATOS" series belongs to a deliberate program of Claudian self-legitimization. Claudius came to power in 41 AD under awkward circumstances — essentially carried to the principate by the Praetorian Guard following Caligula's assassination — and his early coinage worked hard to invoke Augustan precedents. The oak crown reverse type echoes the corona civica granted to Augustus by the Senate in 27 BC, a calculated visual argument that Claudius stood in genuine succession.
RPC I 3626 places this didrachm in the eastern mint tradition, most likely Caesarea in Cappadocia.