Ancient Gold - Roman
Lot 1889 SESSION 11 (7.30PM WEDNESDAY 26TH NOVEMBER) Ancient Gold - Roman
Estimate $100,000
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CALIGULA WITH AGRIPPINA SENIOR, (A.D. 37-41), gold aureus, Lugdunum Mint, issued A.D. 37-38, (7.73 g), obv. laureate head of Caligula to right, around C CAESAR AVG PON M TR POT, rev. draped bust of Agrippina Senior right, her hair is waved from the brow downward and knotted in a long plait at the back, one curly lock falls loosely down the neck, around, AGRIPPINA MAT C CAES AVG GERM, (S.1824, RIC 21, Calico 326 (same dies as illustration), BMC 14, Biaggi 194). Attractively toned with underlying lustre, a few small marks, otherwise good very fine and very rare.
Ex Anthony (Tony) Taylor Collection.^Triton XXI, lot 708. Previously the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Gemini XIII (6 April 2017), lot 145; Arthur Bally-Herzog Collection (Part 1, Munzen und Medaillen AG 93, 16 December 2003), lot 96; H. Osborne O'Hagan Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 13 July 1908), lot 81.
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