Agrippa Honors Octavian and Divus Julius

Triton XIX, Lot: 432. Estimate $30000. Sold for $25000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Octavian, Divus Julius Caesar, and Agrippa. 38 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.63 g, 7h). Military mint traveling with Agrippa in Gaul or Octavian in Italy. Laureate head of the deified Julius Caesar right, vis-à-vis bare head of Octavian left; DIVOS IVLIVS up left, DIVI [F] down right / M · AGRIPPA · COS/DESIG in two lines. Crawford 534/2; CRI 306; Sydenham 1330; RSC 129; RBW –. Near EF, deep old cabinet tone, a few minor cleaning marks under tone. Very rare, and among the finest known.

From the V. Robert Chiodo Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 29 (11 May 2005), lot 424.