CLAUDIUS AND MESSALINA Æ25 OF CRETE 41-43AD ROMAN PROVINCIAL COIN NOVELTY STRIKE

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CLAUDIUS AND MESSALINA Æ25 OF CRETE MUSEUM REPRODUCTION ROMAN PROVINCIAL 41-43 A.D. BRONZE COIN WITH GREEN PATINA
Æ Bronze Coin Roman Provincial (22mm, 03.91g.) Claudius, Koinon of Crete mint, struck 41-43 A.D. References: RPC 1032; Svoronos Crete, 25; McClean 7219. Messalina Valeria, Messalina also spelled Messallina, (born before ad 20—died 48), third wife of the Roman emperor Claudius, notorious for licentious behaviour and instigating murderous court intrigues. The great-granddaughter of Augustus’s sister, Octavia, on both her father’s and mother’s sides, she was married to Claudius before he became emperor (39 or 40). They had two children, Octavia (later Nero’s wife) and Britannicus. Early sources maintain that Messalina allied herself with Claudius’s freedmen secretaries to dominate the emperor and to gratify her avarice and lust. In 42, Messalina caused Claudius to condemn to death a senator, Appius Silanus, who had slighted her advances. This heightened the tension between the emperor and Senate and prepared the way for a reign of terror in which many senators were executed after they had been denounced by Messalina. When she caused the death of Claudius’s freedman secretary, Polybius, however, the other freedmen turned against her. The correspondence secretary, Narcissus, managed to have her put to death by convincing Claudius that she and her lover, the consul designate Gaius Silius, had gone through a public wedding ceremony and were plotting to seize power.
This issue was hand struck in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (ancient Roman province Philippopolis). It goes without saying you always get the exact item in the picture.
Design:
Obverse side
Bare head of Claudius, right; dotted border
Legend:
Τ
Ι ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ ΚΑΙ
ΣΑΡ ΓΕΡΜΑ ΣΕΒΑ
Reverse side
Draped bust of Messalina right
Legend:
ΟΥΑΛΕΡΙΑ ΜΕ
ΣΣΑΛΕΙΝΑ
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CLAUDIUS AND MESSALINA Æ25 OF CRETE 41-43AD ROMAN PROVINCIAL COIN NOVELTY STRIKE
CLAUDIUS AND MESSALINA Æ25 OF CRETE MUSEUM REPRODUCTION ROMAN PROVINCIAL 41-43 A.D. BRONZE COIN WITH GREEN PATINA
Æ Bronze Coin Roman Provincial (22mm, 03.91g.) Claudius, Koinon of Crete mint, struck 41-43 A.D. References: RPC 1032; Svoronos Crete, 25; McClean 7219. Messalina Valeria, Messalina also spelled Messallina, (born before ad 20—died 48), third wife of the Roman emperor Claudius, notorious for licentious behaviour and instigating murderous court intrigues. The great-granddaughter of Augustus’s sister, Octavia, on both her father’s and mother’s sides, she was married to Claudius before he became emperor (39 or 40). They had two children, Octavia (later Nero’s wife) and Britannicus. Early sources maintain that Messalina allied herself with Claudius’s freedmen secretaries to dominate the emperor and to gratify her avarice and lust. In 42, Messalina caused Claudius to condemn to death a senator, Appius Silanus, who had slighted her advances. This heightened the tension between the emperor and Senate and prepared the way for a reign of terror in which many senators were executed after they had been denounced by Messalina. When she caused the death of Claudius’s freedman secretary, Polybius, however, the other freedmen turned against her. The correspondence secretary, Narcissus, managed to have her put to death by convincing Claudius that she and her lover, the consul designate Gaius Silius, had gone through a public wedding ceremony and were plotting to seize power.
This issue was hand struck in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (ancient Roman province Philippopolis). It goes without saying you always get the exact item in the picture.
Design:
Obverse side
Bare head of Claudius, right; dotted border
Legend:
Τ
Ι ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ ΚΑΙ
ΣΑΡ ΓΕΡΜΑ ΣΕΒΑ
Reverse side
Draped bust of Messalina right
Legend:
ΟΥΑΛΕΡΙΑ ΜΕ
ΣΣΑΛΕΙΝΑ
A perfect choice for Numismatists, Historians, Military Veterans, Collectors.
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