brm_927155 - ANTONIA Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: 41-45
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 3,31 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli revers. Usure importante mais régulière. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANTONIA - AVGVSTA.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé d’Antonia à droite, la chevelure se terminant par une petite queue de cheval (L).
Obverse translation : “Antonia Augusta” (Antonia augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONSTANTIAE - AVGVSTI.
Reverse description : Cérès drapée debout de face, la tête à droite, tenant une corne d’abondance relevée de la main gauche et un sceptre long de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Constantiæ Augusti” (À la Constance de l’Augusta).
Commentary
Monnaie fourrée. Faux d’époque.
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.
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