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Sestertius TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVST P M TR POT XXXVI
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 34-35 |
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| Value | 1 Sestertius = 1/4 Denarius |
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| Obverse lettering | DIVO AVGVSTO S P Q R (Translation: To the divine emperor, the senate, and the Roman people.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Tiberius held tribunician power for an unusually long time without renewal ceremonies that might have prompted celebratory issues, making the high TR POT numbering on this coin a quiet marker of his reclusive final years on Capri. By 34–35 AD he had effectively abandoned Rome, leaving Sejanus's successor Macro to manage the Praetorian Guard and Pontius Pilate to administer Judaea — the latter appointment dating to just a few years prior.
Sestertii of Tiberius are notably scarcer than those of his successor Caligula, partly because his reign saw comparatively restrained bronze output from Rome.