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Auction 109  4-5 Nov 2020
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Lot 32

Starting price: 320 GBP
Price realized: 350 GBP
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North Italian (late 16thcentury), Caesonia, Domitia, Terentia and Titus, four oval bronze plaquettes, comprising head of Caesonia (wife of Caligula) right (cf. Bange 198), twice pierced, head of Domitia (wife of Domitian) left, head of an unnamed empress left (Albia Terentia, mother of Otho), and head of Titus left, c. 56 x 43mm, from a series of portraits of Roman emperors and empresses (cf. Scaglia I.36-43, especially 36-37), contemporary casts, very fine (4). For a recent discussion of these portrait medals see Stefan Krmnicek, "Aelia Paetina ...," in Numismatisches Nachrichtenblatt, August 2018, pp. 308-14. See also Warren, Ashmolean, 389-90 for similar plaquettes of Agrippina and Lepida.
(400-600 GBP)
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