CNG 108, Lot: 467. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1751. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Herodians. Agrippa II, with Vespasian. Circa 50-100 CE. Æ Medallion (34mm, 24.97 g, 12h). Caesarea Panias mint. Dated year 27 of Agrippa’s first era (75/6 CE). Laureate head of Vespasian right / Tyche standing left, holding rudder set on globe in right hand, cornucopia in left; ETO[VC K]Z (date) in legend. Meshorer 167a = Sofaer 236 = RPC II 2282.1 var. (star in rev. field); Hendin 1287 var. (same). VF, dark green-brown patina, some roughness and pitting. Bold portrait. An extremely rare variant.

Ex Roma XIII (23 March 2017), lot 489 (hammer £2,600).

A smaller module issue without the star, but with a laureate and draped bust on obverse, was also struck (Meshorer 167b; Hendin 1287a). See CNG 96, lot 671, for another example of this rare variant, incorrectly identified as Samel 196 (a smaller module example).