62, Lot: 65. Estimate $75. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Trachonitis. Caesarea Panias. Diva Poppaea and Diva Claudia. Time of Agrippa II. 48-95 AD. Æ 18mm (4.92 gm). Struck circa 65 AD. DIVA POPPAEA AVG, distyle temple with seated figure of Poppaea / DIVA CLAVDIA NER, hexastyle temple with figure of Nero. RPC 4846. Fine, black and earthen patina. 

The only coin issued in the name of Claudia, Nero's daughter, who died in infancy in 63 AD. Poppaea, her mother, was kicked to death by Nero two years later. Site finds support an attribution to Panias (modern Banias), and Agrippa II re-named the city Neronias in 61 AD, an attempt to curry imperial favor that did not outlast Nero himself.