Two Rare Issues of Agrippa I

Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1131. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $1450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Herodians. Agrippa I. 37-43 CE. Æ 23mm (10.72 g, 12h). Caesarea Paneas or Tiberias mint. Dated RY 5 (AD 40/1). Laureate head of Gaius (Caligula) left / Germanicus in triumphal quadriga right, holding eagle-tipped scepter; [date in exergue]. RPC I 4976; Burnett, Coinage 4; Meshorer 116; Hendin 74. Near VF, black patina with traces of orange overtones, area of hard bright-green patina on reverse. Extremely rare.