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Triton XVIII, Lot: 1004. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Agrippa. Died 12 BC. Æ As (27mm, 10.29 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Gaius (Caligula), AD 37-41. M • AGRIPPA • L • F • COS • III, head left, wearing rostral crown / S C across field, Neptune standing left, naked except for cloak hanging over right arm, behind back and over left shoulder and upper arm, holding small dolphin in outstretched right hand, vertical trident in left. RIC I 58 (Gaius); BMCRE 161-8 (Tiberius); BN 77-97 (Caligula). EF, even, red-brown patina, some deposits. A handsome coin with an impressive portrait.


From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Kurt P. Wyprächtiger Collection; Sternberg XII (18 November 1982), lot 528.