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<p>[QUOTE="Nemo, post: 2136226, member: 58462"]Here's my one and only Galba.[ATTACH=full]407482[/ATTACH]<font size="4">And a second, but only by way of the countermark.</font></p><p>[ATTACH=full]407484[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="4"><b>Nero and Statilia Messalina Galba countermark</b> </font></p><p><font size="4">Nero & Statilia Messalina, Æ27 as, Galba ctmk., 10.54g Nicaea, Bythinia, </font></p><p><font size="4">O: NERWN K[LAU]DIOS KAISAR SEBASTOS GE, laureate head left, rectangular countermark GALB[A].</font></p><p><font size="4">R: ME[SSALEIN]A [GYNE SEBASTOY] Statilia Messalina as Securitas seated right. </font></p><p><font size="4">Obverse die RPC 2057, Reverse die RPC 2061; Listed in Wildwinds as RPC 2061cf, countermark Howgego 591. Unique.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Statilia Messalina was the third and last wife of Nero, empress from 66-68. Her great beauty and intelligence kept her alive during some of the most turbulent years of the early empire.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">After several failed attempts to strangle his first wife, Claudia Octavia, to death, Nero divorced her for barrenness and she was forced into suicide. Nero kicked his second wife, Poppaea Sabina who was pregnant at the time, to death. Going into a deep depression (Women, can't live with them, can't live without them!) he found comfort in his new bride, Statilia Messalina. All it took was the forced suicide of her husband and Nero was able to have her all to himself. </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">She must have been a most clever woman as she survived the revolution and civil war that followed, even being betrothed to Otho before he too met an untimely end. Suetonius reports that of the two letters Otho wrote the night before he committed suicide, one of them was to Statilia. </font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Nemo, post: 2136226, member: 58462"]Here's my one and only Galba.[ATTACH=full]407482[/ATTACH][SIZE=4]And a second, but only by way of the countermark.[/SIZE] [ATTACH=full]407484[/ATTACH] [SIZE=4][B]Nero and Statilia Messalina Galba countermark[/B] Nero & Statilia Messalina, Æ27 as, Galba ctmk., 10.54g Nicaea, Bythinia, O: NERWN K[LAU]DIOS KAISAR SEBASTOS GE, laureate head left, rectangular countermark GALB[A]. R: ME[SSALEIN]A [GYNE SEBASTOY] Statilia Messalina as Securitas seated right. Obverse die RPC 2057, Reverse die RPC 2061; Listed in Wildwinds as RPC 2061cf, countermark Howgego 591. Unique. Statilia Messalina was the third and last wife of Nero, empress from 66-68. Her great beauty and intelligence kept her alive during some of the most turbulent years of the early empire. After several failed attempts to strangle his first wife, Claudia Octavia, to death, Nero divorced her for barrenness and she was forced into suicide. Nero kicked his second wife, Poppaea Sabina who was pregnant at the time, to death. Going into a deep depression (Women, can't live with them, can't live without them!) he found comfort in his new bride, Statilia Messalina. All it took was the forced suicide of her husband and Nero was able to have her all to himself. She must have been a most clever woman as she survived the revolution and civil war that followed, even being betrothed to Otho before he too met an untimely end. Suetonius reports that of the two letters Otho wrote the night before he committed suicide, one of them was to Statilia. [/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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