Coinage in Rome at the Time of Agrippa’s Untimely Death in 12 BC

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 825. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.97 g, 5h). Rome mint. Cossus Cornelius Lentulus, moneyer. Struck 12 BC. AVGVSTVS, bare head right / COSSVS CN • F • LENTVLVS, equestrian statue right of Agrippa, helmeted, bearing trophy over left shoulder, on pedestal, ornamented with two prows. RIC I 412; RSC 418; BMCRE 122-3 = BMCRR Rome 4672-3; BN 551-4. Good VF, gold-gray toning.