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| LHS Numismatik AG > Auction 96 | Auction date: 8 May 2006 |
| Lot number: 924 | |
| Lot description: Lakedaimon / Sparta Lakedaimonian coinage of the 40s and 30s BC Estimate: CHF 200.00 Sextans (?) (AE, 2.44 g, 14 mm, 6), c. 21. Head of Livia to right. Rev. // within laurel wreath. Grunauer XXVIII, 1 (same dies). RPC 1105. Extremely rare, one of four examples known, and the only one not in a museum. Red and green patina. Very fine. Ex Waddell II, 12 September 1987, 182. This coin and the one in the previous lot were struck to honor the Imperial couple on the occasion of their visit to Sparta in 22/1. While Eurycles was, as we have seen, a good friend of Augustus’, Livia also had close relations with Sparta because she, and her young son, had taken refuge there in 40; as a result Sparta became a client of the powerful family of the Claudii in Rome. |  |
