| Agrippa, Military Commander, Friend of Augustus, Grandfather of Caligula, Great-grandfather of Nero |  |
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| Agrippa? and Augustus, Knossos, Crete, c. 27 B.C. |   | Older references list this type as Octavian and Mark Antony, in part based on foundation of the colony c. 37 B.C. RPC concludes this can't be Mark Antony because recent scholarship indicates the colony was founded in 27 B.C. or later. The revised date makes a coin of Antony impossible.
The relative concavities of this two-headed bronze suggest that Agrippa was meant to be the obverse. |
| RP16544. Leaded bronze AE 21, RPC I 976; BMC Crete p. 26, 72 - 73; SNG Cop 394, F, weight 7.120 g, maximum diameter 21.6 mm, die axis 0o, Knossos mint, obverse C I N [C EX DD], bare head of Agrippa? right, labyrinth behind; reverse [T FVFIO] M AIMILIO II VIR, bare head of Augustus right; dark green patina, some encrustation and corrosion; SOLD |
| Augustus and Agrippa, 16 - 15 B.C., Nemausus, Gaul |  | This two-headed brass dupondius was commonly cut between the heads, creating two individual one-as coins.
The reverse commemorates the conquest of Egypt in 30 B.C. and was probably issued in connection with Augustus' visit to Gaul in 16 B.C. |
| RB42765. Bronze cut half dupondius (as), cf. SRCV I 1729, RIC I 155, RPC I 523, F, cut, half missing, weight 5.475 g, maximum diameter 24.5 mm, Gaul, Nemausus mint, 16 - 15 B.C.; obverse IMP DIVI F, back to back heads of Augustus and Agrippa (cut), Augustus bare head right, Agrippa left wearing a rostral crown; reverse COL NEM, crocodile right chained to a palm, wreath with long ties above, two palm fronds below; SOLD |
| Augustus and Agrippa, 10 - 14 A.D., Colonia Augusta Nemausus, Southern Gaul (Nimes, France) |  | The reverse commemorates the conquest of Egypt in 30 B.C. This theme was probably used at Nemausus because the colony was settled by Egyptian Greeks and veterans from Anthony's army that had surrendered to Octavian at Actium. This was the last of the COL NEM issues, distinguished by the addition of the title P P (Pater Patriae), an honor bestowed to Augustus in 2 B.C. |
| BB34325. Bronze dupondius, RIC I 159, RPC I 525, SRCV 1731, aF, pits, halved, weight 6.151 g, maximum diameter 25.8 mm, Nemausus mint, obverse IMP DIVI F P P, laureate heads of Agrippa and Augustus back-to-back; reverse COL NEM, crocodile right chained to palm tree, wreath with long ties above, two palms fronds below; SOLD |
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