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Claudius, 25 January 41 - 13 October 54 A.D., Polyrhenium, Crete, Valeria Messalina reverse

16601. Bronze AE 19, RPC 1032, aF, 4.170g, 20.2mm, 180o, Polyrhenium mint, head of Claudius left; reverse MESSA [...], diademed head of Messalina right; after nearly 10 years in business, this is the first coin of Messalina handled by FORVM; Messallina was Claudius' 3rd wife and mother of Britannicus and Claudia Octavia. They were married when she was 14. In 48 A.D., while Claudius was away in Ostia, even though she was married to the emperor, Messallina married her lover, Gaius Silius. Silius was executed and Messallina driven to suicide.

	
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