188, Lot: 162. Estimate $150. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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GAUL, Nemausus. Augustus, with Agrippa. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ As (26mm, 14.09 g). Struck circa 16-10 BC. Back to back heads of Agrippa, wearing combined rostral crown and laurel wreath, and Augustus, bare / Crocodile right, chained to palm frond with wreath at top; two palm fronds at base. RPC I 523; RIC I 155; SNG Copenhagen 698. Near VF, dark green patina, light roughness. The style is a bit crude, perhaps an imitative issue.
From the Richard Prideaux Collection.