Catalog 334
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The Samel Collection of Jewish Coins and Medals

Lot 2209

Lot 2209

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Result 460 €

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Antonius Felix, 52-59. Æ-Prutah, year 14 (=54), Jerusalem?; 2,83 g.

NEPW ΚΛΑΥ ΚΑΙCAP around two crossed oblong shields and javelins//BRIT above palm tree with two date clusters,  L – IΔ and K / AI at both sides of its trunk. Hendin no. 1348; Meshorer, Treasury 259 no. 340.

Partially weakly struck on the obverse, very fine

Overbeck – Meshorer no. 235.

The 14th tribunica potestas of Claudius started on the 25th of January; he was murdered on the 13th of October in the same year. Consequently, this coin which is dedicated to both Caesars of Claudius, to Britannicus (son of Claudius and Messalina, Caesar since autumn 43) and Nero (son of Claudius’s wife Agrippina, Caesar since February 50), was minted between January and October 54.