EMPEROR CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS_____AE Antoninainus_____FIERY EYES_____Mars

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FRASCATIUS ANCIENTS
A BEAUTIFUL BRONZE COIN OF CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS FROM 268 - 270 AD .
History describes Claudius Gothicus as being tall, with fiery eyes, and so strong that he could knock out the teeth of man or beast with one punch.
THE SIZE IS 20.9 MM AND 2.45 GRAMS.
Sear 11350
OBVERSE – IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right
REVERSE – MARS VLTOR, Mars advancing right, carrying spear and trophy
EMPEROR
History describes Claudius Gothicus as being tall, with fiery eyes, and so strong that he could knock out the teeth of man or beast with one punch. It also says that Trajan Decius rewarded him after Claudius demonstrated his strength while wrestling another soldier in the Campus Martius.
Claudius II Gothicus (Marcus Aurelius Valerius Claudius), born 214 AD, was emperor of Rome from 268-270. Claudius was a military commander who may have been a military tribune under Decius and commander of Balkan legions under Valerian. Claudius II may have instigated the murder of his predecessor, Gallienus, but was, at any rate, proclaimed emperor afterwards. Claudius II put to death the rebellious Aureolus whom Gallienus had attempted to suppress in Milan. Claudius earned his title Gothicus Maximus when he routed the Goths at the Battle of Naissus. Claudius II died in 270 of the plague.
IMPERIAL ROME
Imperial Rome was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The 500-year-old Roman Republic, which preceded it, had been destabilized through a series of civil wars. Several events marked the transition from Republic to Empire, including Julius Caesar's appointment as perpetual dictator (44 BC); the Battle of Actium; and the granting of the honorific Augustus to Octavian by the Roman Senate .
The first two centuries of the Empire were a period of unprecedented stability and prosperity known as the Pax Romana ("Roman Peace"). It reached its greatest expanse during the reign of Trajan. In the 3rd century, the Empire underwent a crisis that threatened its existence, but was reunified and stabilized under the emperors Aurelian and Diocletian. Christians rose to power in the 4th century, during which time a system of dual rule was developed in the Latin West and Greek East. After the collapse of central government in the West in the 5th century, the eastern half continued as what would later be known as the Byzantine Empire.
Because of the Empire's vast extent and long endurance, the institutions and culture of Rome had a profound and lasting influence on the development of language, religion, architecture, philosophy, law, and forms of government in the territory it governed, particularly Europe, and by means of European expansionism throughout the modern world.
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