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Triton XXIV  19-20 Jan 2021
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Lot 1050

Estimate: 20 000 USD
Price realized: 26 000 USD
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Nero, with Agrippina Junior. AD 54-68. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.54 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 55. NERO CLAVD DIVI F CAES AVG GERM IMP TR P COS, jugate bareheaded busts right, of Nero, a fold of cloak on back of neck, and of Agrippina, draped / AGRIPP AVG DIVI CLAVD NERONIS CAES MATER, EX S C in field above elephants, Divus Claudius, radiate, holding eagle-tipped scepter in right hand and Divus Augustus, radiate, holding patera in right, scepter in left, driving quadriga of elephants left. RIC I 6; WCN 3; Calicó 397; BMCRE 7; BN 10-12; Biaggi 218; Jameson 47; Mazzini 3. Toned, underlying luster. Near EF. Very rare. Two finely engraved portraits struck in high relief.

Ex Gasvoda Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 109, 12 September 2018), lot 638; Triton XXI (9 January 2018), lot 722; Numismatica Ars Classica 94 (6 October 2016), lot 114; Numismatica Ars Classica 64 (17 May 2012), lot 1116 (hammer CHF 55,000).
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