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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 24586656, member: 110226&quot;]Yes, but you might need to look at provincial coinage, Alexandria specifically.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s also a very rare denarius of Claudius on the obverse and Agrippina Jr on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>To move things along, and Claudius is a tough one in that an actual portrait of Messalina does not exist, as far as I know, here is the Alexandrian tetradrachm depicting Messalina as Ceres on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Claudius and Messalina, BI tetradrachm, Alexandria, RY 1 (41 AD).</b></p><p><b>RPC I 5132</b></p><p><b>14.1 grams</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Obverse: Laureate head right; L A (date) before.</p><p>Reverse: MEΣΣAΛINA KAIΣ ΣEBAΣ, Messalina, veiled, standing left, leaning on column, holding two children and grain ears.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1561260[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>How about Commodus?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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