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LOT 9245696

Estimate
GBP (£) 40 - 60
EUR (€) 46 - 69
USD ($) 54 - 80

Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) (+bp*)

Claudius and Messalin AR Tetradrachm AD 44-45.

Alexandria, Egypt. Dated Year 5. AD 44-45. Obv: TI KLAYDI KAIS SEBA GERMANI AYTOKR, laureate head right. Date LE in lower right field. Rev: MESSALINA KAIS SEBAS, Messalina standing left, leaning on column, holding two children and corn-ears. Lituus in left field. RPC i 5163; BMC 74; Köln 87; Dattari 128; Oxford 101; Demetrio 652; Paris 195. 10.74gr, 25mm, 1h.

Fine.

PROVENANCE:
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

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