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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 4294217, member: 104887&quot;]Hi All,</p><p><br /></p><p>Britanicus in Egypt. Denomination &amp; subject matter for Alexandria is rare:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1093154[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Claudius (25 Jan 41 - 12 Oct 54 CE)</b></p><p><b><b>Alexandria Egypt</b></b></p><p><b>Bi Didrachm</b></p><p><b>Size:</b> 20 mm</p><p><b>Weight:</b> 4.00 g</p><p><b>Axis:</b> 00:00</p><p><br /></p><p><b>OBV:</b> Claudius laureate draped bust facing right. Legend: [TIKΛAYKAI] - CEBACΓEPM. In right field: LΓ. Dotted border.</p><p><b>REV:</b> Cornucopiea (double) with Britanicus and Octavia heads above, Antonia head between them facing right. Below Antonia in two lines: AYTO - KPA. Dotted border.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Refs:</b> Emmett-75.03; Geissen-Unlisted; Dattari-118, pl i; Curtis-6; Staffieri <i>Alexandria In Nummis</i> #6; Also see B Lichocka, <i>Claudius&#039;s Issue of Silver Didrachms in Alexandria: Emperor’s Children and Crossed Cornucopias</i> (<a href="http://etudesettravaux.iksiopan.pl/images/etudtrav/EtudTrav_otwarte/EtudTrav_26/EtudTrav_26_2/et_26-V-2-03-Lichocka.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://etudesettravaux.iksiopan.pl/images/etudtrav/EtudTrav_otwarte/EtudTrav_26/EtudTrav_26_2/et_26-V-2-03-Lichocka.pdf" rel="nofollow">PDF available here</a>), Ètudes et Travaux XXVI (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 2013), pp 428-445.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Lichocka (2013):</b> <i>&quot;In the third year of Emperor Claudius’s reign (AD 42/43) the Alexandrian mint issued a silver didrachms with the motif on the reverse of crossed cornucopias surmounted by confronted busts and a third bust in the middle. The busts above the cornucopias have been attributed to the emperor’s daughters: Claudia Antonia and Claudia Octavia, daughters of Aelia Paetina and Valeria Messalina, his second and third wife respectively. The third bust facing right was the youngest of the siblings, Britannicus, son of Claudius and Messalina. The large upper part of each cornucopia has a profiled edge, the lower part is decorated with two spreading leaves. The inscription under the bust of Britannicus, between the cornucopias, AYTO/KPA, is typical of legends on coins of Claudius minted in Alexandria. The obverse bears a bare head of Claudius turned to the right and the legend TIB KΛAY KAI CEBAC ΓEPM; the date in front of the head is LΓ. The issue, considered as &#039;experimental&#039; and known from a few dozen specimens, coincided with the issue of silver drachmas depicting a bust of Serapis on the reverse.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>CNG Triton XXI Stafierri:</b> <i>&quot;An extremely rare coin, and the only collectible didrachm (billon or otherwise) issued in Alexandria during the Roman Imperial period. (Erik Christiansen in The Roman Coins of Alexandria lists two unique didrachms for Nero, regnal years 3 and 4, the first in Athens, the second in Berlin.) Claudius also issued a billon drachm (RPC I 5136), which is of equal rarity.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Bought from David Hendin (Amphora) in 2000 @ NYINC Show.</p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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