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21 April 2024

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Extremely Rare - Three Sisters of Caligula

Starting Price: 200 CHF
Hammer Price:  320 CHF
Lot 440

BITHYNIA. Apamea. Caligula, 37-41. (Bronze, 30 mm, 10.19 g, 12 h). DIVÆ DRVSILLAE / IVLIAE AGRIPPINA Half length draped busts of Drusilla left facing, Iulia facing, and Agrippina Jr facing left. Rev. AGRIPPINA C CAESARIS AVG GERMANICI MATER C I C, D D Agrippina seated left, left, holding patera in right hand and scepter in left. RPC I, 2012.8 (this coin). Extremely rare, only eight examples known. Only two examples on coinarchives. Holed and with natural encrustations , otherwise, about very fine.



An extraordinary type depicting four renown women from the Julio-Claudian era. This is the only provincial coin to represent portraits of all three of Caligula's sisters .

Online bidding closes: 21 Apr 2024, 17:39:30 CEST Current Date & Time: 4 May 2024, 18:45:04 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:320 CHF by mattk (8 bids)
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