Leu Numismatik

Auction 15  –  1 June 2024

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Leu Numismatik, Auction 15

Celtic, Greek, Roman, Byzantine Coins and Aurum Barbarorum

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★ Among the finest Provincial portraits of Agrippina in existence ★

PHRYGIA. Acmoneia. Agrippina Junior, Augusta, 50-59. Hemiassarion (Bronze, 16 mm, 2.92 g, 12 h), L. Servenius Capito and Julia Severa, circa 55. ΑΓΡΙΠΠΙΝΑΝ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗΝ Draped bust of Agrippina Junior to right; before, two grain ears and poppy. Rev. [ΕΠΙ ΣΕΡ]ΟΥΗΝΙΟΥ ΚΑΠΙΤΩΝΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΙΟΥΛΙΑΣ ΣΕΟΥΗΡΑΣ / ΑΚΜΟΝΕΩΝ Artemis advancing right, holding bow in her left hand and drawing arrow from quiver with her right; before, small figure of Nike advancing right, holding wreath in her right hand and palm frond over her left shoulder. BMC 36. RPC I 3173. SNG Copenhagen 25. A wonderful coin, beautifully preserved and with one of the finest Provincial portraits of Agrippina in existence. The reverse struck very slightly off center, otherwise, good extremely fine.

Ex Leu 13, 27 May 2023, 170 and previously from a Bavarian collection, formed in the early 2000s.

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