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Time of Trajan, City Commemorative Æ37 of Deultum, Thrace. Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the founding of the colony, AD 100. Sestertius of Agrippina I from the Rome mint, struck under Claudius I, AD 42-43. [AGRIPPINA M F GER]MAN[ICI CAESARIS], draped bust right, with hair in long plait; c/m: forepart of bull left, C F P D around, within shallow round incuse / [TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P P around large S•C]. Cf. D. Draganow, The Coinage of Deultum, Sofia 2007, p. 177, 1-3; for undertype, cf. RIC 102 (Claudius); BMCRE 219 (Claudius); for c/m, cf. Jurukova, Deultum, 202b. 23.24g, 37mm.
Fair; heavily worn. C/m Near Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare with this countermark.
Ex Numismatik Lanz 165, 9 December 2017, lot 14.
Heavily worn coins were usually taken out of circulation and replaced, or had their value reduced by being countermarked. The present sestertius of Agrippina I, clearly having circulated extensively since being struck in AD 42/3, bears just such a countermark which in this case reproduces the first coin type to be struck at Colonia Flavia Pacensis Deultum (cf. Varbanov 2018). This small denomination issue, produced under Trajan, was intended to mark the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the city by Vespasian in AD 70 and to provide the citizens of Deultum with one-time access to the celebratory festivities of the anniversary, a role which could also be performed by countermarked coins such as this re-tariffed sestertius.
Fair; heavily worn. C/m Near Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare with this countermark.
Ex Numismatik Lanz 165, 9 December 2017, lot 14.
Heavily worn coins were usually taken out of circulation and replaced, or had their value reduced by being countermarked. The present sestertius of Agrippina I, clearly having circulated extensively since being struck in AD 42/3, bears just such a countermark which in this case reproduces the first coin type to be struck at Colonia Flavia Pacensis Deultum (cf. Varbanov 2018). This small denomination issue, produced under Trajan, was intended to mark the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the city by Vespasian in AD 70 and to provide the citizens of Deultum with one-time access to the celebratory festivities of the anniversary, a role which could also be performed by countermarked coins such as this re-tariffed sestertius.