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Auction 80  13-14 June 2016
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Lot 11

Estimate: 300 GBP
Price realized: 240 GBP
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Northern Italy (16th century), (Vipsania) Agrippina, wife of Tiberius, oval bronze uniface plaquette inscribed agrippina tib v, 56mmx 43mm (Warren, Ashmolean, 389; cf. Scaglia I.38), some solder on reverse, extremely fine; Petronia, wife of Vitellius, oval bronze uniface plaquette, incised petronia vit vx, 82mm x 65mm, very fine, both contemporary casts (2) Plaquettes such as these appear to have been the inspiration behind a series of uniface medals of the twelve Caesars and their wives which have been attributed to Soldani – see the sale of the Charles Avery collection, sold here on 11 June 2008, lot 515. (300 - 500)
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