Agrippina Senior (died AD 33). AE sestertius (31mm, 26.67 gm 7h). Fine, missing fragment. ...
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Agrippina Senior (died AD 33). AE sestertius (31mm, 26.67 gm 7h). Fine, missing fragment. Rome, ca. AD 50-54. AGRIPPINA•M•F GERMANICI CAESARIS, draped bust of Agrippina Senior right, seen from front, hair in long plait / TI•CLAVDIVS•CAESAR•AVG•GERM P M TR P IMP P P, legend around S•C; countermark of NCAPR. RIC I (Claudius I) 102 var. (countermark). Ex Naville Numismatics, Auction 88 (7 April 2024), lot 395. "NCAPR is found on sestertii and dupondii only of the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius, being perhaps most common on those of the last...Nero Caesar Augustus populo Romano...such a countermark might be appropriate to Nero's congiarium of A.D. 57, for at this time aes currency in Nero's own name had not yet been minted, and his instinct for self-advertisement might have rejected the idea of merely handing out coins of his predecessors." C. M. Kraay, The Behavior of Early Imperial Countermarks, pg. 133. HID07901242017 www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice
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