AR26 - Nero ΑΓΡΙΠΠΙΝΑ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗ, L Δ

This tetradrachm dates to regnal year 4 of Nero's reign, when Agrippina the Younger still appeared on Alexandrian coinage — a situation that would not last. Within a year or two, her image was systematically dropped from the Egyptian mint's output, almost certainly reflecting the deteriorating relationship between mother and son that culminated in her murder in 59 AD. Alexandria was one of the last mints in the empire still issuing coins that paired their portraits, making this provincial series an unusually direct document of that political rupture.