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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

#OnThisDay - 23 March - in AD 59 Agrippina the Younger, one of the most significant figures of the Julio-Claudian period, was assassinated on the orders of her son, the emperor Nero. #Agrippina #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC Nero 6; Münzkabinett Wien (RÖ 5469). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

Obverse of a Roman aureus: Jugate busts, right of Nero (in forefront), bare-headed and draped at back of neck, and Agrippina the Younger, draped and bare-headed.

Reverse of a Roman aureus: Quadriga of elephants, left, bearing two chairs with figures of Divus Claudius and Divus Augustus, both radiate.

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