424, Lot: 299. Estimate $100. Sold for $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Claudius, with Messalina. AD 41-54. BI Tetradrachm (24mm, 12.27 g, 12h). Dated RY 4 (AD 43/4). Laureate head right; L ∆ (date) before / Messalina standing facing, head left, leaning on short column, holding two children in outstretched right hand, grain ears in left; liuus to left. Köln 82; Dattari (Savio) 126; K&G 12.36; RPC I 5146; Emmett 74. VF, toned, some minor porosity.

From the WRG Collection, purchased from Coin Galleries, 17 May 1983.