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Contributor: Ognjen Arandjelovic.
Issuer: CALIGULA, AD 37-41, and his fourth wife, CAESONIA. AE 33mm, minted in Carthago Nova, Spain.
Obverse: C CAESAR AVG GERMANIC IMP PM TRP COS, laureate head of Caligula facing right.
Reverse: CN ATEL FLAC CN POM FLAC II VIRQ V I N C, bust of Caesonia facing right, dividing SAL / AVG.
Reference: Sear 624.
Comments: For more information, read the "Gaius (Caligula)" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Caligula see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.