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423, Lot: 349. Estimate $75.
Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Agrippa. Died 12 BC. Æ As (24.9mm, 6.26 g, 6h). Contemporary imitation of Rome mint issue. Uncertain mint. Struck after AD 41. Head left, wearing rostral crown / Minerva advancing right, brandishing spear and holding round shield. Cf. RIC I 58 (Gaius) for obverse; cf. RIC I 116 (Claudius) for reverse. Fine, dark green and brown patina, some roughness, spot of verdigris on Agrippa’s head.


From the WRG Collection, purchased from William Porter, September 1998.

Interesting contemporary imitation muling the obverse of an Agrippa As with a reverse type of Claudius.