v24_0249 - ANTONIA Dupondius, (MB, Æ 29)

MONNAIES 24 (2005)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 155.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 156.00 €

Type : Dupondius, (MB, Æ 29)

Date: 41-45

Mint name / Town : Roma

Metal : bronze

Diameter : 28,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 13,15 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et complet des deux côtés. Sans patine

Catalogue references :

C.6 (4f.) - RIC.92 - BMC/RE.166 - RCV. - BN/R.148 - MRK.7 /3 var. (1500€)

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANTONIA - AVGVSTA.

Obverse description : Buste drapé, tête nue d'Antonia à droite (L).

Obverse translation : “Antonia Augusta”, (Antonia Augusta).

Reverse

Reverse legend : TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP/ S|C.

Reverse description : Claude voilé, vêtu en augure, debout à gauche, tenant le simpulum de la main droite.

Reverse translation : "Tiberius Claudius Cæsar Augustus Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Imperator" (Tibère Claude césar auguste grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne empereur).

Historical background

ANTONIA

(+37) restitution of CLAUDE

Daughter of Marcus Antonius, wife of Nero Drusus, mother of Germanicus

Antonia (36 AC - 37 AD), daughter of Marc Antony and Octavia, niece of Augustus, wife of Drusus, mother of Germanicus and Claudius, sister-in-law of Tiberius, crosses the Augustan period to die - possibly poisoned - during the reign of Caligula, her grandson. It is she who, in 29, reveals the sedition of Séjan to Tiberius.

ANTONIA Dupondius VF/XF