#Roman Coin - Copper Nummus of Romulus Caesar

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Roman Coin - Copper Nummus of Romulus Caesar

Obverse: naked head of Romulus on the right. DIVO ROMVLO N V BIS CONS. Reverse: circular domed temple with half-open doors, surmounted by an eagle standing right, turning its head to the left. AETERNAE MEMORIAE// RQ.

Romulus Augustus (c. 465? – after 511), nicknamed Augustulus, was Roman emperor of the West from 31 October 475 until 4 September 476. Romulus was placed on the imperial throne by his father, the magister militum Orestes, and, at that time still a minor, was little more than a figurehead for his father. After Romulus ruled for just ten months, the barbarian general Odoacer defeated and killed Orestes and deposed Romulus. As Odoacer did not proclaim any successor, Romulus is typically regarded as the last Western Roman emperor, his deposition marking the end of the Western Roman Empire as a political entity, despite the fact that Julius Nepos would continue to be recognised as the western emperor by the east. The deposition of Romulus Augustulus is also sometimes used by historians to mark the transition from antiquity to the medieval period.