Triton XXII, Lot: 1021. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Nero, with Agrippina Junior. AD 54-68. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.52 g, 10h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 55. NERO CLAVD DIVI F CAES [AV]G GERM IMP TR P COS, conjoined busts right of Nero, bareheaded, drapery at back of neck, and of Agrippina Junior, bareheaded and draped / AGRIPP AVG DIVI CLAVD NERONIS CAES MATER, EX S C in left field, chariot drawn left by quadriga of elephants; on two chairs set on chariot are seated two male figures, Divus Claudius, radiate and holding eagle-tipped scepter in right hand, and Divus Augustus, holding patera in right hand and scepter in left. RIC I 7; WCN 37; RSC 4; BMCRE 8; BN 13-14. Good VF, toned, minor flan flaw on obverse.
From the Londinium Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 197 (26 November 1997), lot 522; G. Hirsch 195 (5 May 1997), lot 640; G. Hirsch 190 (8 May 1996), lot 686.