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Erhaltung: vf- | Abkürzungen
Katalognummer: princeps iuventutis
Durchmesser: 16,00 mm
weight 3,38gr. | silver Ø 16mm.
obv. Draped bust of Caracalla, bare-headed, right,
surrounded by the legend M AVR ANTON CAES PONTIF
rev. Felicitas, draped, standing left, holding caduceus in right
hand and child in left arm, surrounded by the legend
PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS
As princeps iuventutis, First of the youth or, less often, princeps iuventum were during the Roman imperial period the designated successors of the princeps designated. The expression appears for the first time in the late republic. So called Marcus Tullius Cicero the one he valued Cato the Younger so. As a real and exclusive title, however, it was only after the establishment of the Principle through Augustus introduced. This organized the knightly young teams (and partly the mature young members of the mobility) as iuventus and left his grandchildren and presumtive successor Caius and Lucius Caesar 5 or 2 BC BC too principes iuventutis explain. With the rank of princeps iuventutis hardly seem to have been associated with concrete powers, but among other things Germanicus, Tiberius Gemellus, Nero, Domitian and Commodus highlighted by this title. In AD 195, Severus created himself a dynastic continuity by proclaiming himself son of Marcus Aurelius and his seven years old son Bassianus was renamed after his new «grandfather», Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Probably soon after Antoninus/Caracalla was made Caesar. The proclamation of Caracalla/Antoninus as Caesar was as well an affront to Clodius Albinus who was Caesar and an important ally since Septimius Severus had become emperor. In AD 197, only after Clodius Albinus had been defeated, Caracalla was additionally entitled imperator destinatus, princeps iuuentutis, and he was co-opted into two of the priestly collegia. Probably already in the autumn of the same year, Caracalla/Antoninus was made Augustus, then aged only nine. This child-emperor was soon co-opted in the other priesthoods and received the title of pater patriae at the end of AD 199, then eleven years old. Again, the following events and especially the following honours with the Augustus-title later in the same year, made the princeps iuuentutis title only of secondary, minor importance and it was dropped. Cohen 505 | RIC 13a | BMC 54, 208 | Sear 6677
usual short and irregular flan
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