CLAUDIUS SILVER DENARIUS – ISSUE WITH AGRIPPINA – NGC VF ROMAN IMPERIAL COIN OF THE 12 CAESARS (Inv. 21577)

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21577. ROMAN EMPIRE. CLAUDIUS, AD 41–54.
Silver Denarius, 3.56 g, 18 mm. Issue of Rome, AD 51.
Obv. TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG GERM P M TRIB POT P P, laureate head of Claudius right. Rev. AGRIPPINAE AVGVSTAE, laureate and draped bust of Agrippina the Younger right.
RIC I rev, 81.
Ex Vilmar Numismatics inv. 13078 (2018) = ex Numismatik Naumann 62, 2/4/2018, lot 663.
NGC VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5.

Claudius is perhaps one of the best–known emperors in modern times thanks to the PBS television series “I, Claudius.” A very learned man, said to have read Etruscan, Claudius was proclaimed emperor after the murder of Caligula. On this coin, with two imperial portraits, we see the portrait of his wife Agrippina the Younger, who was his niece and a prominent member of the Julio–Claudian family. She was the mother of Nero and is said to have poisoned Claudius so that her son could claim the imperial throne.