During the first and second centuries, the women of the imperial family of the Roman Empire had a difficult role to play. ... On this side the inscription reads AGRIPP AVG DIVI CLAVD NERONIS CAES MATER EX S C, which gives Agrippina's title as the wife of the divine Claudius and the mother of Nero, and proclaims that the coin was minted by decree of the senate. ... It is an example of a fairly standard practice in the Roman empire in which the new emperor shows respect for the previous emperor. ... On the reverse is a depiction of her riding in the funerary chariot pulled by elephants, ...

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This was something that the entirety of the Roman Empire did not know about him. ... On the 28th of March, 37 AD, Caligula was given absolute power of the empire by the roman senate. ... Caligula was arguably the worst Roman emperor in history, and possibly the worst ruler of all time. ... Caligula's attitude towards gore actually made him a popular emperor at the start of his rein of the Roman Empire. ... His popularity with the roman people was evident when Caligula fell ill early on in his regime; anxious crowds of Romans besieged the palace all night (Tranquillus 155). ...

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