#damantio memoriae

[uncleclaudius]

An example of the Damnatio Memoriae decreed on Gaius Caligula on the coins bearing his image. Many of Caligula's coins were withdrawn after his murder and restruck, while others were defaced. Damnatio Memoriae didn't mean that all the traces of the individual were erased, only the ones that showed him in a positive light.

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