Agrippa Wearing Mural and Rostral Crown

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 826. Estimate $15000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $22000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus, with Agrippa. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3/91 g, 6h). Rome mint. Cossus Cornelius Lentulus, moneyer. Struck 12 BC. AVGVSTVS COS • XI, head of Augustus right, wearing oak wreath / • M • AGRIPPA • COS • TER • COSSVS • LENTVLVS, head of Agrippa right, wearing mural and rostral crown. RIC I 414; RSC 1 (Agrippa and Augustus); BMCRE 121 = BMCRR Rome 4671; BN 548-50. Near EF, lightly toned, a couple of shallow scratches on reverse. Rare.