Reece Period attributed: Period 2
Member of the Julio-Claudians dynasty.
Coins for this issuer were issued from -14 until 33.
Agrippina was born in Athens, Greece. In AD 5 she married Germanicus, her second cousin and step-grandson of the Emperor Augustus.
Agrippina had nine children by Germanicus, three of whom died in infancy; the surviving six were:
She was regarded by her peers as a woman of the highest character, moral but arrogant and ambitious for herself and her family. In Tacitus' Annals 6.25 he commented:
...could not endure equality and loved to domineer with her masculine aspirations was far removed from the frailties of women...
On the surface it appears that she was a victim of tyranny; dig deeper and she had done much to provoke her fate.
We have recorded 2 examples.
Record: BERK-6C41FC
Object type: COIN
Broadperiod: ROMAN
Description:
A copper-alloy Roman sestertius o…
Workflow: Published
Record: DEV-EEA7E1
Object type: COIN
Broadperiod: ROMAN
Description:
Roman copper alloy sestertius of the empr…
Workflow: Published
View all coins recorded by the scheme attributed to Agrippina the Elder.