Extremely Rare Panias Issue - RPC Plate Coin

248, Lot: 320. Estimate $200. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Caesarea Panias. Agrippina Junior & Octavia. Augustae, AD 50-59 and AD 54-62, respectively. Æ (18mm, 7.36 g, 12h). Agrippina Junior seated left, holding branch and cornucopia; crescent to left / Octavia standing left, sacrificing from phiale over altar. Meshorer 353 var. (obv. legend, no crescent); Hendin 1269 var. / corr. (same as previous / same obv. die as plated specimen); RPC I 4845.2 corr. (crescent not noted; this coin) . Near VF, dark brown, almost black, patina. Extremely rare - five cited in RPC.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

Struck between AD 54 and 59, this is the only coin honoring Agrippina Junior (Nero’s mother) and Octavia (Nero’s wife) together.