Sestertius - Agrippina the Elder TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P P

Claudius struck this posthumous sestertius honoring his mother Agrippina the Elder — who had died in 33 AD under circumstances that implicated Tiberius, having been exiled to Pandateria and, according to Tacitus, effectively starved to death. The rehabilitation of her memory was politically useful for Claudius, who leaned on his Julian bloodline to legitimize a reign that began awkwardly when the Praetorian Guard found him hiding behind a curtain after Caligula's assassination.

RIC 102 is among the more frequently encountered of Claudius's memorial issues, struck consistently across the early 50s.