At the Time of Agrippa’s Death

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 873. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.43 g, 6h). Uncertain mint. Struck circa 12 BC. CA-ES-AR•, bare head right within oak wreath / AVG-VST•, candelabrum ornamented with rams' heads, within wreath entwined with bucrania and paterae. RIC I 540; RSC 2; BMCRE 684; BN 1013. Near EF, minor porosity.

See the simiar example in the Prideaux collection, above, for his arguments on the reassignment of the mint, date of issue, and events surrounding this type.