Reece Period attributed: Period 1
Member of the Julio-Claudians dynasty.
Coins for this issuer were issued from 14 until 37.
Tiberius Caesar Augustus, born Tiberius Claudius Nero (November 16, 42 BC – March 16 AD 37), was the second Roman Emperor, from the death of Augustus in AD 14 until his own death in 37. Tiberius was by birth a Claudian, son of Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla. His mother divorced his father and remarried to Augustus in 39 BC. Tiberius would later marry Augustus' daughter Julia the Elder (from an earlier marriage) and even later be adopted by Augustus and by this act he became a Julian. The subsequent emperors after Tiberius would continue this blended dynasty of both families for the next forty years; historians have named it the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
Tiberius Claudius Nero is recognized as one of Rome's greatest generals, whose campaigns in Pannonia, Illyricum, Rhaetia and Germania laid the foundations for the northern frontier. But he came to be remembered as a dark, reclusive, and sombre ruler (tristissimus hominum – ‘the gloomiest of men’, by one account), who never really desired to be Emperor. After the death of Tiberius’ son Drusus in 23, the quality of his rule declined, and ended in a Terror. In 26 Tiberius exiled himself from Rome and left administration largely in the hands of his unscrupulous Praetorian Prefects Lucius Aelius Sejanus and Quintus Naevius Macro. Caligula, Tiberius’ adopted grandson, succeeded the Emperor on his demise.
We have recorded 212 examples.
Record: NLM-A5F6AD
Object type: COIN
Broadperiod: ROMAN
Description: Silver coin. Denarius of Tiberius (AD 14-3…
Workflow: Awaiting validation
Record: SF-8DB3EB
Object type: COIN
Broadperiod: ROMAN
Description: A complete Roman silver denarius of T…
Workflow: Awaiting validation
Record: PUBLIC-6F57E9
Object type: COIN
Broadperiod: ROMAN
Description: A silver Roman denarius of Tiberius (AD 14…
Workflow: Published
Record: WMID-065508
Object type: COIN
Broadperiod: ROMAN
Description: A Roman silver denarius of Tiberius (AD&nb…
Workflow: Published
View all coins recorded by the scheme attributed to Tiberius.
This video has been embedded from Adrian Murdoch's series of podcasts on the Emperors of Rome. Many thanks to him for allowing us to use these podcasts.