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LOT 3466
Claudius, with Messalina BI Tetradrachm. Dated RY 3 (AD 42/3).
ΤΙ ΚΛΑΥΔΙ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙ ΑΥΤΟΚΡ, laureate head to right; L Γ (date) to right / ΜΕΣΣΑΛΙΝΑ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑΣ, Messalina standing to left, veiled and holding two small figures and corn stalks leaning on column. RPC I, 5131; Dattari (Savio) 123; Emmett 74.3. Near Very Fine.(12.40gr, 26mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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