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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8307406, member: 110350&quot;]Great write-up!</p><p><br /></p><p>I actually do have one coin that supposedly shows Britannicus (in miniature form!) together with his sister and mother:</p><p><br /></p><p>Claudius I, billon [Sear &amp; others]/AR [RPC] Tetradrachm, Year 4 [43/44 AD], Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, ΤΙ ΚΛΑVΔΙ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙ ΑVΤΟΚΡ around, LΔ [Year 4] under chin / Rev. Messalina [Third wife of Claudius and mother of Britannicus] as Demeter, standing facing, head left, wearing long chiton, leaning left elbow on short column, holding grain ears in left arm and <b>two standing children [</b><i><b>representing Claudia Octavia and Britannicus</b>*</i>] on outstretched right hand; to left, lituus; ΜΕΣΣΑΛΙΝΑ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑΣ. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. I&nbsp; 5146 (1992); RPC I Online at&nbsp; <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5146" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5146" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5146</a>; Emmett 74.4 [Emmett, Keith, <i>Alexandrian Coins</i> (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; Milne 93 at p. 3 [Milne, J.G., <i>Catalogue of Alexandrian Coins </i>(Oxford 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay, 1971)]; K&amp;G 12.36 [Kampmann, Ursula &amp; Ganschow, Thomas, <i>Die Münzen der römischen Münzstätte Alexandria</i>&nbsp; (2008)]; Dattari (Savio) 126198 [Savio, A. ed., <i>Catalogo completo della collezione Dattari Numi Augg. Alexandrini</i> (Trieste, 2007)]; Köln 82 [Geissen, A., <i>Katalog alexandrinischer Kaisermünzen</i>, <i>Köln</i>, Band I (Augustus-Trajan) (Cologne, 1974); Sear RCV I 1869 [Year 6; ill. of Year 2 w/lituus at p. 369.]&nbsp; 23 mm., 13.02 g., 12 h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1470309[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>*Her two children with Claudius, both born before Year 4 of Claudius’s reign; Claudia Octavia later became the Emperor Nero’s first wife. See note in Sear RCV I at p. 369.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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