147, Lot: 116. Estimate $100. Sold for $141. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Claudius, with Messalina. AD 41-54. BI Tetradrachm (24mm, 11.31 g). Dated RY 2 (AD 41/2). Laureate head of Claudius right; L B (date) before / Messalina standing half-left, holding two small figures (children?) in her right hand and grain-ears with left, leaning left elbow on column. Köln 65 var (lituus on reverse); Milne 67; Emmett 74. Near VF.

From the Henry Chitwood Collection.