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280, Lot: 130. Estimate $300.
Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Agrippina Junior. AD 50-59. Æ Sestertius (36mm, 26.08 g). Balkan(?) mint. Draped bust right / Blank. Cf. RIC I 103 (Claudius); cf. BMCRE p. 195 note; cf. Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 274, lot 343 (same obv. die?, also with blank rev.). Fine, brown patina, minor roughness, a few small cuts on edge. Rare.


From the Nera Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 50, lot 69.

Apparently struck at a Balkan mint, to judge from finds in the territory of Moesia-Thrace. The note in RIC raises the possibilty that the Agrippina sestertii with the obverse legend AGRIPPINA AVG GERMANICI F CAESARIS AVG were made as presentation pieces for a military unit stationed in the region.

BMCRE mentions at least one sestertius from this series with an “obliterated” reverse.