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Dupondius - Tiberius PONT MAXIM COS III IMP VII TR POT XXI
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 19-21 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | PONT MAXIM COS III IMP VII TR POT XXI (Translation: Pontifex Maximus, Consul Tertius, Imperator Septimus, Tribunicia Potestate Vicesima Prima. High priest, consul for the third time, supreme commander (Imperator) for the seventh time, holder of tribunician power for the 21st time.) |
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The TR POT XXI dating places this dupondius firmly between 19 and 21 AD, years marked by the fallout from Germanicus's death in Antioch and Tiberius's increasingly strained relationship with the Senate. Whether Germanicus was poisoned on Tiberius's orders was a question Romans openly debated; the trial of Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso that followed consumed the political atmosphere of precisely this moment. Coins struck under PONT MAXIM formulas during these years reflect an emperor performing constitutional normalcy while his grip on Rome tightened considerably.