Artemide Aste s.r.l.
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Nero with Agrippina II. AE 28 mm. Nicaea mint, Bithynia. Attius Laco procos, c. 54-55 AD. Obv. NEPΩN KAIΣAP ΣEBAΣTOΣ AΓPIΠΠINA ΣEBAΣ[TH]. Laureate head of Nero and draped bust of Agrippina II, jugate, left. Rev. EΠI ATTIOY ΛAKΩNOΣ ANΘYΠATOY/NEIKA. Dionysus, standing left on an elephant's head, holding cantharus and thyrsus. RPC 2052. AE. g. 12.79 RR. Very rare and exceptional for issue, among the finest known. Deep emerald green patina. About EF.
The eldest daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina Senior, Agrippina Junior was banished by her brother the emperor Caligula in 39 AD. Recalled by her uncle Claudius, she eventually married him following the downfall of Messalina. Nero, her son by her first husband Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, was adopted by Claudius and succeeded to the throne four years later. Agrippina soon lost her influence over her son and eventually she was murdered in March, 59 AD, on the emperor's order.
(D. R. Sear, Greek Imperial Coins, p.49).
Provenance:
Dr. Busso Peus 410, lot 671.
Leu 54, 1992, lot 228.
The eldest daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina Senior, Agrippina Junior was banished by her brother the emperor Caligula in 39 AD. Recalled by her uncle Claudius, she eventually married him following the downfall of Messalina. Nero, her son by her first husband Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, was adopted by Claudius and succeeded to the throne four years later. Agrippina soon lost her influence over her son and eventually she was murdered in March, 59 AD, on the emperor's order.
(D. R. Sear, Greek Imperial Coins, p.49).
Provenance:
Dr. Busso Peus 410, lot 671.
Leu 54, 1992, lot 228.