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Lot 166

Estimate: 1650 USD
Price realized: 1650 USD
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Nero and Agrippina II. Denarius; Nero and Agrippina II; Lugdunum, 55 AD, Denarius, 3.40g. BM-8, Paris-13, C-4 (30 Fr.), RIC-7 (R3). Obv: NERO CLAVD DIVI F CAES AVG GERM IMP TR P COS Jugate busts r. of Nero in foreground and Agrippina in background. Rx: AGRIPP AVG DIVI CLAVD NERONIS CAES MATER Statues of Divus Claudius and the Loyalty of the Praetorians in elephant quadriga l., EX S C in field. The second coin type of Nero and Agrippina together, testifying to Agrippina's waning influence before she was eliminated from the coinage entirely from mid 55 AD on. The elephant quadriga carrying statues to the Circus games is one of the honors voted to Divus Claudius by the Senate, as the legend EX S C attests; for the possible true identity of the second statue, traditionally misconstrued as Divus Augustus, see article by C. Clay in Num. Zeitschrift 96, 1982, pp. 42-5, summarized in RIC, p. 149.. VF
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