GERMANIA CAPTA

Please |help| us convert the |Dictionary of Roman Coins| from scans to text by typing the original text here. Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. GERMANIA CAPTA. (Germania conquered - A female figure, personifying Germania weeping, seated on a buckler, at the foot of a trophy composed of German arms. On the right stands a German captive, his hands bound behind him, his shield at his feet. In the exergue S.C. - Obv. - IMPerator CAESar DOMITianus AVGustus GERManicus COnSul XI, CENSoriae POTestatis Pater Patriae. Bust of Domitian laureated, adorned with the Aegis. This rare first brass is of the year 837 of Rome (A.D. 84). Domitian was no sooner seated on the throne, than it pleased him to undertake an expedition against the Catti, a German tribe, and though so far from coming to action with them, he had not once even seen the enemy, yet repassing the Rhine, this cowardly tyrant had the arrogance to take the honours of the triumph for his foolish campaign against this people, and to assume the surname Germanicus. He caused slaves to be bought, who were dressed after the manner of the Germans, and whose hair was suffered to grow, in order that they might pass for Germans in the eyes of the Roman citizens. On the reserse of another large brass, struck

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GERMANIA CAPTA

Please |help| us convert the |Dictionary of Roman Coins| from scans to text by typing the original text here. Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. GERMANIA CAPTA. (Germania conquered - A female figure, personifying Germania weeping, seated on a buckler, at the foot of a trophy composed of German arms. On the right stands a German captive, his hands bound behind him, his shield at his feet. In the exergue S.C. - Obv. - IMPerator CAESar DOMITianus AVGustus GERManicus COnSul XI, CENSoriae POTestatis Pater Patriae. Bust of Domitian laureated, adorned with the Aegis. This rare first brass is of the year 837 of Rome (A.D. 84). Domitian was no sooner seated on the throne, than it pleased him to undertake an expedition against the Catti, a German tribe, and though so far from coming to action with them, he had not once even seen the enemy, yet repassing the Rhine, this cowardly tyrant had the arrogance to take the honours of the triumph for his foolish campaign against this people, and to assume the surname Germanicus. He caused slaves to be bought, who were dressed after the manner of the Germans, and whose hair was suffered to grow, in order that they might pass for Germans in the eyes of the Roman citizens. On the reserse of another large brass, struck

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