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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 7930434, member: 110226&quot;]Nice coins, Donna, and the other examples posted here are also very nice. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have only two coins of the first century AD empresses that have been posted before.</p><p><br /></p><p>They are:</p><p><br /></p><p>Livia, dupondius, SALVS AVG VESTA, 21-22 AD, issued under Tiberius. This coin was minted late in her life, and at a time in the reign of Tiberius when he was exhibiting increasing cruelty and ruthlessness, at least according to Robert Graves first book on Emperor Claudius, <i>I Claudius.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>RIC 47</p><p><br /></p><p>13.4 grams</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin has a little roughness on part of the rim, but it has a nice portrait of Livia.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1371115[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And the Alexandrian billon tetradrachm of Claudius I, with Messalina as Demeter on the reverse, 43/44 AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>Köln 61; RPC I 5113; Dattari 119; Milne 60; Emmett 74/1</p><p><br /></p><p>14.1 grams</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1371120[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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