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| UBS Gold & Numismatics > Auction 78 | Auction date: 9 September 2008 |
| Lot number: 1466 | |
| Lot description: ANCIENT COINAGE SPECIAL COLLECTION OF ROMAN IMPERATORS AND EMPERORS ROMAN EMPIRE Valeria Messalina c. 25 – 48 AD. No.: 1466 Schätzwert/Estimate: CHF 500 Bronze year 86 = 40/41, Sinope. T CLAVDIVS CAES AVG C I F ANNO LXXXVI Laureate head of Claudius to r. Rev. MESSALINA – AVGVSTA Draped bust of Messalina to r. 11,34 g. RPC 2130 (this specimen). Perhaps unique. Green-brown patina. Good portraits. Some oxidation on rev. Good very fine. Ex Trau Coll., Auction Adolph Hess Nachf., Frankfurt & Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Vienna, 22 May 1935, lot 385. The Trau Collection cataloguer found the coin to be probably unedited. RPC cites this coin. |  |
