Roma Numismatics Limited, E-Sale 67, Los 621 ROMAN PROVINCIAL
Statilia Messalina (third wife of Nero) Æ21 of Thyatira, Cilicia. After AD 60. ΣΤΑΤ ΜΕΣΣΑΛ... CΕΒΑ, youthful bust of Nero right / ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ, double axe. RPC I p. 405, paragraph 2 'The coin with Messalina (= BMC 68 = Grant, Nero p. 219) is not authentic, it is just a coin of Nero which has been tooled...'; re-engraved obverse...