v60_0028 - CLAUDIUS AND NERO CAESAR Aureus

MONNAIES 60 (2013)
Starting price : 9 500.00 €
Estimate : 15 000.00 €
Realised price : 9 500.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 18 000.00 €

Type : Aureus

Date: 50

Mint name / Town : Lyon

Metal : gold

Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰

Diameter : 20 mm

Orientation dies : 9 h.

Weight : 7,66 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur flan ovale et irrégulier avec un petit choc sur la tranche à 11 heures au revers. Magnifique portrait de Claude. Revers de haut relief avec un petit coup le long du cou. Jolie patine. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine

Catalogue references :

C.4 (80f.) - RIC.82 - BMC/RE.79 - BN/R.85 pl. XXII - Giard/L2.84 /8a, pl. XIII (16 ex.) - RCV.1889 (11600$) - Cal.391 - MRK.12 /6 (8000€)

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient du trésor des Vignes (Piémont Cévenol)

Obverse

Obverse legend : .TI CLAVD. CAESAR. AVG. GERM. P. M. TRIB. POT. IMP. P. P..

Obverse description : Tête laurée de Claude à droite (O*).

Obverse translation : "Tiberius Claudius Cæsar Augustus Germanicus Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestas Pater Patriæ" (Tibère Claude césar auguste germanique, Grand Pontife, revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne, Père de la Patrie).

Reverse

Reverse legend : NERO CLAVD CAES DRVSVS [GERM] PRINC IVVENT.

Reverse description : Buste drapé, tête nue à gauche de Néron césar à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*11).

Reverse translation : “Nero Claudius Cæsar Drusus Germanicus Principi Iuventutis” (Néron Claude césar Drusus germanique, prince de la jeunesse).

Commentary

Rubans de type 3 pour le portrait de Claude. Début de cassure de coin perceptible au revers dans la chevelure de Néron César. Malgré la rareté du type, nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente. De la plus grande rareté.

Historical background

CLAUDIUS AND NERO CAESAR

(50-54)

Claude was born in 10 BC in Lyon. Become emperor by chance, after the assassination of Caligula in 41, he is a great emperor and a good administrator but remains dominated by his wives and his freedmen who hold the reality of power. Agrippina (15-59), his fourth wife, was the daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, sister of Caligula. She married Domitius Ahenobarbus, from whom she gave birth to Nero in 37. After marrying her uncle Claudius in 50, she managed to have her son adopted by her husband who became Caesar to the detriment of her own son, Britannicus, son of Messalina. Nero is certainly one of the best-known emperors, thanks to Tacitus and Suetonius, but also one of the most decried. He is the last representative of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. He is descended from both Augustus through his mother and Julie through his maternal grandfather, Germanicus. Caesar in 50, he is also named Prince of Youth.